false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899946m/77156.jpg 77156 20 Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground. 1402373 1999 Plainsong total:5205|5:1396|4:2070|3:1293|2:354|1:94| 5205 19935 6594 788 1 4 false false Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 15:24:18 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 13:56:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 7 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Aug 06 10:28:05 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 10:37:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 03 22:06:17 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 22:06:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Nov 23 21:16:45 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 21:25:17 -0800 2008 2
The texture of the language b...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Aug 27 14:52:33 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 14:57:41 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Mon Sep 03 19:20:31 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 11:57:34 -0700 2007 2 1 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 12 14:21:13 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 15 20:46:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 24 07:59:14 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 09 12:08:13 -0800 2008
"any simple and unadorned melody or air."

I appreciated this book more than I liked it. The author, Kent Haruf, writes with a vividly clear but simple prose about a small town in northeastern C...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 16:37:07 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 16:56:02 -0700 2007
The fact that I was unable to tell when the story t...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 12:22:58 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 23:07:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 12 11:46:59 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 11:53:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 10:32:38 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 11:08:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Nov 08 00:03:02 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 00:05:33 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 16:39:12 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:39:12 -0700 2009
The setting is the small town of Holt—located in the prairie not too far from Denver. The type of town where people know each other's business and papers are still delivered by boys on bicycles. Yet as much as people know you in a small town, they don't really know you or w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:34:34 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 10:45:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 01:25:57 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 19:51:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 14:54:10 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 07:58:03 -0800 2009
I found this one while searching for something similar to Steinbeck. While Haruf's work doesn't rise to that level, this book is a grand slam homerun of a story ab...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Mar 30 14:44:22 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 14:56:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 07:26:58 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 16:43:34 -0700 2009
Initially the only characters I liked were Ike and Bobby, who have a self-assured quietness that I relate to. But otherwise none of the story lines w...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 14 19:28:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 19:36:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=77156