Plainsong A Hauntingly Beautiful Tale of Intertwined Lives in Small-Town America

<p><b><i>Plainsong</i>, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.</b><br><br><b>‘So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader’ – <i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless.<br><br>Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron – gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished – agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.<br><br><b>A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers, <i>Plainsong </i>is an essential read from the Picador Collection, a curated list of era-defining modern classics.<br><br>'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' – Roddy Doyle, bestselling author of <i>The Commitments</i></b></p>