The characters are so well drawn that it is easy to care about what happens to them. Rather than wallowing in the negative, Haruf punctuates the novel with laugh-out-loud moments, especially when he focuses on the aging bachelor McPheron brothers.ĭon't be thrown off by the publisher's summary of this novel, which implies that the book is a bit of a soap opera. Each character's personality has been molded by a difficult or tragic event, but each one faces life head-on, bucking up in the stereotypical Midwest fashion. The common thread among them is another schoolteacher, who lives alone with her senile father.
Plainsong, set in a small plains town in Colorado, revolves around two groups of three people-a schoolteacher and his two young sons and two bachelor ranchers and the pregnant teenager they take into their lives.
Every once in a while I post mini-reviews of books I read in my pre-blogging days. In the years before I started blogging, I kept notes about the books I read.
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