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Plainsong

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726934
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Plainsong written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

Eventide

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400043018
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eventide written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Best Books of The Year: Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, The Plain Dealer, and Rocky Mountain News Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another.

Benediction

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962156
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Benediction written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town’s newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors. Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

Plainsong for Caitlin

Author : Elizabeth M. Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380782161
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Plainsong for Caitlin written by Elizabeth M. Rees and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caitlin and Rebecca's world crumbles when they hear of the disaster at sea in which thier father is killed. With meager funds, the sisters leave New Bedford to begin a new life on the western frontier.

Keeper'n Me

Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385693257
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Keeper'n Me written by Richard Wagamese and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail. Deciding to stay awhile, his life is changed completely as he comes to discover his sense of place, and of self. While on the reserve, Garnet is initiated into the ways of the Ojibway--both ancient and modern--by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways. By turns funny, poignant and mystical, Keeper'n Me reflects a positive view of Native life and philosophy--as well as casting fresh light on the redemptive power of one's community and traditions.

Where You Once Belonged

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807851
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Where You Once Belonged written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the people of Holt may not be able to stop him.

Kit's Law

Author : Donna Morrissey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547630557
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Kit's Law written by Donna Morrissey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrissey’s acclaimed, bestselling debut. “A Dickensian brawl of a novel . . . never a dull moment! The reader is willingly swept along in the tide.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch In this powerful novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find “all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty heroine whom we can’t help rooting for on every page” (Margot Livesey). Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and an occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kit’s isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother, Josie, is mentally disabled and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues, as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship, although blurred, are deeply felt. Kit’s Law is a novel of extraordinary, almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent. “An extraordinary trinity of women.” —Thomas Keneally, #1 bestselling author of Schindler’s List “A stunning debut.” —The Telegraph “Impossible to put down.” —The Sunday Business Post “Speaks directly to the heart.” —The Globe and Mail

Plainsong

Author : Deborah Grabien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986008528
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Plainsong written by Deborah Grabien and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time soon to come, only the children, the birds, and the animals are left to enjoy earth's beauty. Five adults - an artist, a nymph, a wanderer, a pregnant woman, and a savior have also been spared from the plague that has swept everyone else away. Only the creatures understand, in part, the purpose that requires these five to come together in a special place at a special time. Gad the cat, Simon the ram, and the four ravens - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - are charged with the heavy responsibility of making sure that all goes according to plan. And deep in a quiet pool in the green and pleasant countryside, Old Trout, who knows almost everything about the great mystery that is unfolding, anxiously awaits the arrival of the child....

A Manual of Plainsong for Divine Service Containing The Canticles Noted, The Psalter Noted, to Gregorian Tones, Together with the Litany and Responses

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Author : Henry Bremridge Briggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Manual of Plainsong for Divine Service Containing The Canticles Noted, The Psalter Noted, to Gregorian Tones, Together with the Litany and Responses written by Henry Bremridge Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plainsong Accompaniment

Author : John Henry Arnold
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plainsong Accompaniment written by John Henry Arnold and published by London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford. This book was released on 1927 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tie That Binds

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307560643
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Tie That Binds written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit. Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family--and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom.

Musical Notation in the West

Author : James Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898161
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Musical Notation in the West written by James Grier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.

Plainsong

Author : Kazushi Hosaka
Publisher : Japanese Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781564786388
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Plainsong written by Kazushi Hosaka and published by Japanese Literature. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nameless, ambitionless office worker finds his small apartment gradually invaded by three other people: all younger than himself, but seemingly no less adrift. The year is 1986, and the strange communal life of this foursome, extending over half a year, from the end of winter to midsummer, makes up the plot, such as it is, of Plainsong, as this ersatz family finds itself growing closer, and life continues quietly around them. Part of the generation that grew to prominence following the success of baby boomers like Haruki Murakami, Kazushi Hosaka s work chronicles the small moments, the moments without conflict, that most novels work to elide. His characters talk, work, exist; their story is one where the tiniest occurrence takes on the proportions of a grand drama.

The Fast Red Road

Author : Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573660884
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Fast Red Road written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fast Red Road--A Plainsong is a novel which plunders, in a gleeful, two-fisted fashion, the myth and pop-culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a story fueled on pot fumes and blues, borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the traditional western. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as interchangeable as their outfits; men strike poses from Gunsmoke, and horses are traded for Trans-Ams. Pidgin, the half-blood protagonist, inhabits a world of illusion--of aliens, ghosts, telekinesis, and water-pistol violence--where television offers redemption, and "the Indian always gets it up the ass." Having escaped the porn factories of Utah, Pidgin heads for Clovis, NM to bury his father, Cline. But the body is stolen at the funeral, and Pidgin must recover it. With the aid of car thief Charlie Ward, he criscrosses a wasted New Mexico, straying through bars, junkyards, and rodeos, evading the cops, and tearing through barriers "Dukestyle." "Charlie Ward slid his thin leather belt from his jeans and held it out the window, whipping the cutlass faster, faster, his dyed black hair unbraiding in the fifty mile per hour wind, and they never stopped for gas." Along the way, Pidgin escapes a giant coyote, survives a showdown with Custer, and encounters the remnants of the Goliard Tribe--a group of radicals to which Cline belonged. Pidgin's search allows him to reconcile the death of his father with five hundred years of colonial myth-making, and will eventually place him in a position to rewrite history. Jones tells his tale in lean, poetic prose. He paints a bleak, fever-burnt west--a land of strip-joints, strip-malls, and all you can eat beef-fed-beef stalls, where the inhabitants speak a raw, disposable lingo. His vision is dark yet frighteningly recognizable. In the tradition of Gerald Vizenor's Griever, The Fast Red Road--A Plainsong blazes a trail through the puppets and mirrors of myth, meeting the unexpected at every turn, and proving that the past--the texture of the road--can and must be changed.

Our Souls at Night

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875909
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Our Souls at Night written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife. His daughter lives hours away, her son even farther, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in empty houses, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. But maybe that could change? As Addie and Louis come to know each other better--their pleasures and their difficulties--a beautiful story of second chances unfolds, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.

Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401609
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the variation in plainsong, its living quality, that these essays address.

Plains Song for Female Voices

Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Plains Song for Female Voices written by Wright Morris and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This narrative, which on its surface is an account of three generations of women (and a few of their men) living on the plains of Nebraska ... only gets more strange and beautiful the more you look at it, like a photograph that slowly reveals its truth under very close inspection."--Introduction, p. [v].