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Chargement... Plainsong (1999)par Kent Haruf
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book has characters that are so real. I swear I have met each one of them. The dialogue was written so well that I could hear the voices jumping off the page. The setting of Colorado was also as alive as the people in the story. I was touched many times by acts of kindness and quiet moments of generosity and love that just took my breath away. Simple, straightforward and full of heart, it’s worth it. ( ) What a smooth and easy read with a great ending. What read like a series vignettes that laced at the edges the story was crisp like Steinbeck but without the hard edges. Life in the 1980's in a high plains ranching town a couple hours from Denver. Simple but certainly not plain lives of people in Holt, CO were well described by not over done. KH limited his words in many scenes. Scattered images noted gave a sense of place and feeling. Almost a 5.0. Est contenu dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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HTML:National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girlâ??her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the houseâ??is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them togetherâ??their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American t Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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