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| Library Events |
| Community Literature Series - BF |
| Date |
21 February 2013 |
| Time |
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Location |
Butman-Fish Library, 1716 Hancock, Saginaw |
| Contact Phone |
989-799-9160 |
| Link |
Click here for more information |
Discussion of Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Plainsong, according to Kent Haruf's epigraph, is "any simple and unadorned melody or air." It's a perfect description of this lovely, rough-edged book, set on the very edge of the Colorado plains. Tom Guthrie is a high school teacher whose wife can't--or won't--get out of bed; the McPherons are two bachelor brothers who know little about the world beyond their farm gate; Victoria Roubideaux is a pregnant 17-year-old with no place to turn. Their lives parallel each other in much the same way any small-town lives would--until Maggie Jones, another teacher, makes them intersect. Even as she tries to draw Guthrie out of his black cloud, she sends Victoria to live with the two elderly McPheron brothers, who know far more about cattle than about teenage girls
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