![]() ![]() ![]() After a while we find that this isn't important: in fact, it enhances the feeling of small town peace. ![]() Plainsong is set in a small Colorado hamlet, though the when is never clear. Author Kent Haruf hones the feeling of simplicity with simple language - well used - and a sharp focus on character rather than place or even action. The real triumph for Plainsong is not for the characters, but for their creator. Rather, the struggles we see detailed are wonderfully real and simply drawn with a story that hinges on such mortal - almost homely - challenges that the reading is a soothing passage to a quiet place. No clattering crescendo for the triumph of good over evil. A simple story of individual struggle with human problems dealt with in a very human way. any simple and unadorned melody or air," and Plainsong is precisely that. On the first page, we are told that a plainsong is, ". Plainsong is the most perfectly named book imaginable. ![]()
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