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Published in 1999, Plainsong is a literary novel by American author Kent Haruf that explores the intersecting lives of residents in the fictional farming town of Holt, Colorado. The narrative follows a high school teacher, two elderly bachelor farmers, and a pregnant teenager as they form an unconve...
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National Book Award finalist with broad critical acclaim, austere prose, and high reader esteem; a modern plains fiction benchmark.
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Eventide is a literary novel by Kent Haruf published in 2004, set in the fictional farming community of Holt, Colorado. As a sequel to his earlier novel Plainsong, the book revisits several established characters, including the elderly McPheron brothers and their adopted daughter, Victoria. The narr...
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Strongly reviewed Plainsong sequel with Haruf's admired restraint and humanity; slightly less fresh and acclaimed than its predecessor.
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