Plainsong
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1999
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552781166
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Paula inherits fragments of her grandfather Paddock's journal, which leads her on a journey of the heart and mind where she must recreate her ancestor's troubled history. This epic tale draws readers through the early frontier's hardships, through the Great War and the Depression and into the booming 1950s. Plainsong evokes the tale of four generations in a family and brings to vivid life a prairie town sculpted by the overwhelming forces of change. Award-winner Nancy Huston weaves a powerful and haunting tale that enhances readers' understanding of prairie life and history.
About the author
Nancy Huston’s books have won the Prix Goncourt des Lyceéns, the Prix Elle (Quebec) and the Governor General’s Award. Her novel, The Mark of the Angel, was an international bestseller, which won the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle, the Canadian Jewish Fiction Book Award, the Torgi Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Fault Lines won the Prix Femina in 2006. Nancy Huston lives in Paris with her husband, the writer Tzvetan Todorov, and their two children.
