This is the second time I have read this novel and it's just a brilliant book. Perhaps most of the characters are too black or too white but it didn't bother me. It concerns a teacher, his two young sons, his mentally ill wife, a pregnant teenager, the two elderly men who take her in, and a bully and his bully family. One chapter is about an elderly woman teaching the two boys (nine and ten) how to bake oatmeal cookies and I could read it over and over. Haruf went onto write more novels about this town in Colorado. His last novel OUR SOULS AT NIGHT was published a year after his death in 2014. Funny how many of my favorite writers write about small town life in the Midwest and West.
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I've heard this is really good, Patti. I ought to put it on my list...
I meant to read this after we watched the 2004 Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation, with Aidan Quinn, Rachel Griffiths, and Geoffrey Lewis and William Andrews as the brothers, plus America Ferrera, Margo Martindale, Megan Follows, and Marian Seldes. I know it is available on DVD, don't know about streaming.
I'll check PLAINSONG out. And I'll search for the 2004 HALLMARK adaptation.
I will look for it, Jeff. Thanks.
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