![]() ![]() ![]() Polished, often subtle, and deliberately simple, the novel is full of the love and travail, the effort and failure, and the kindness and cruelty that fill the lives of Haruf's plainspoken, often endearing, characters. Like Plainsong, which was described by the National Book Award Committee as "a novel of wisdom and grace-a narrative that builds in strength and feeling," this novel, too, is a warm and heart-tugging study of the hard-scrabble residents of a small town in the High Plains of Colorado. I'm just having some fun raising the price for somebody else…We got to have some fun, don't we?…We got to have some kind of enjoyment in life."Īnyone who loved Plainsong has a lovely treat in store with this follow-up to that National Book Award-nominated novel. Was that you? He thought that was you trying to bid on them. After he bid a second time Raymond turned to look at him. (reviewed by Mary Whipple MAY 15, 2004) "There was one time in the afternoon when Harold, sitting up in his seat above the sale ring, began to bid on a pen of butcher cows. ![]()
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