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1) Plainsong
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Kent Haruf has received prestigious awards, including a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for his finely-tuned works. Before the opening chapter of this novel, Haruf offers a definition. Plainsong is "any simple and unadorned melody or air." Direct yet elegant, Haruf's Plainsong is a hymn to the breadth of the human spirit. A high school history teacher in a small Colorado town, Guthrie is raising his two young sons alone. Thoughtful...
2) Benediction
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Set in the High Plains of Colorado, Benediction is a story about the grace that lies within us all"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
As elderly Edith Goudnough lies in a hospital bed, accused of murder, her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe, tells what he knows of her life: "a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged."--Cover.
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