What readers think of Plainsong, plus links to write your own review.

When I have recommended this book to friends, I found myself over and over calling it "such a sweet book." That does not do it justice. It is about connections, made and broken and remade in the most unexpected ways. Haruf loves his characters and we do too, in the end. I read it on the train, and I would read a chapter, close the book and loook out the window and cry a little, and then read another chapter. These people have not had easy lives, but they are still willing to "give it one more shot," and let someone love them one more time.

I felt this novel had a timeless universal quality about it. As if Haruf didn't write it but plucked it out of a previous existence. The story and the charactors were always there and he just need to put them on paper.

Plainsong...a slow starter....fractured linkage between major characters in plot...suddenly woven together after all are introduced with separate heartaches...tough time initially accepting the willingness of two old weatherbeaten bachelor farmers willing to take in a young girl (Victoria); especially under the circumstances...and Maggie maintains a very odd Mother Teresa personality blended with deep personal loneliness..

The simplicity of the language is bitingly real...and the book really grows on one toward the end....some tastes of Nicholas Sparks style...and perhaps some Robert Newton Peck tossed in..
....eternal values and human experience at its earthy best..
GV

Kathy Whitcher
What a wonderful story, I couldn't put it down, and didn't want it to end.