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Plains Song: For Female Voices
Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place, also available in a Bison Books edition, and Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including The Feast of Love.
Paperback, 229 pages
Published
October 1st 2000
by Bison Books
(first published 1980)
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There are better books on this theme (women who settled the frontier, in this case the Great Plains). This is a multigenerational story of the women in one family in Nebraska.
The character of Sharon drove me crazy. She is the one woman in the family who chooses not to marry and instead, to follow a career and move to the big city (Chicago), but her motivations are not well explained.
The character of Sharon drove me crazy. She is the one woman in the family who chooses not to marry and instead, to follow a career and move to the big city (Chicago), but her motivations are not well explained.
I didn't enjoy this dull book with underdeveloped characters and wonder why I bothered to finish it. There was nothing written in a positive sense, nothing to make you feel good or enjoy what you're reading. If everyone perceived life in this negative manner wouldn't we all be sad indeed.
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The story of three generations of women as they farm and raise their children on the plains of Nebraska. Morris examines the relationships of the family as they change through the years.
Beautiful, subtle, heartbreaking ... a writer who could tell a lifetime by painting one downward glance ...
I did my Master's Thesis on this author's salvaging of the past.
bleak, but compelling
A National Book of the Year, Morris' novel describes all the women in three generations of one family and so deftly written that one feels they know them all. When some minor incident in one of their lives makes them think of similar things that happened earlier to them, it wasn't uncommon for me to find myself staring out the window while remembering incidents in my past, too. As a grandfather looking back, however, most of the time I was glad that part of my life was over.
Dec 28, 2007
Sheila Rocha
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Recommends it for:
readers of Great Plains literature
A somber and darker look at the limited reality of the plains/prairie woman. The starch is thick as life is filled with negation for passion and future.
It is filled with brutal honesty, but requires more character dimension. There must be more to some of the women in his novel.
It is filled with brutal honesty, but requires more character dimension. There must be more to some of the women in his novel.
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Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms.
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