TY - BOOK AU - Haruf,Kent AU - Carey,Peter TI - Plainsong T2 - Picador classic SN - 9781447289517 U1 - 813.54 23 KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - City and town life KW - Colorado KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N1 - First published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 N2 - Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. 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. Whilst Tom's boys find their way forward without their mother, brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron, gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change for ever ER -