![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, finds himself faced with the task of raising two young sons, Ike and Bobby, singlehandedly after his wife descends into a disabling depression. But it would be condescending to call their lives simple, since the people in this book find themselves faced with complex choices, made more rigorous by the social pressures of the tight community within which they must work out their own solutions. The fictional inhabitants of this farming area live a life light years removed from the ski lifts and multimillion-dollar condos of Vail and Aspen. " Plainsong," Kent Haruf's third book, tells the interlocking stories of several characters living in and around the small town of Holt on the Colorado plains east of the Rockies. ![]() Reviewed by Richard Tillinghast, a Univeristy of Michigan professor who has recently released a poetry and music CD with jazz/funk group Poignant Plecostomus. ![]()
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