Plainsong by kent haruf movie

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Plainsong

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Plainsong

Aidan Quinn plays Tom Guthrie, a small-town Colorado schoolteacher whose wife, suffering severe depression, has left him. Tom must care for their two young sons, who strike up an unlikely friendship with the town's elderly spinster, Iva Stearns. Rachel Griffiths plays Maggie Jonas, a fellow teacher of Tom's. She, too, is emotionally vulnerable. She has long been caring for her ailing father and has been divorced for many years.When a student at Tom and Maggie's high school, 17-year-old Victoria Roubideaux, becomes pregnant by an aggressively irresponsible boy, and is thrown out of her home by her overwhelmed single mother, it affects Tom, Maggie, and others in ways both subtle and dramatic. Maggie proposes that Victoria go to live with two crusty old bachelors, the McPheron brothers, who have a ranch nearby. At first, Victoria and the brothers keep a wary distance. Ultimately, they embrace her as a member of their own family — but not before their capacity to forgive is sorely tested.

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Plainsong (novel)

1999 novel by Kent Haruf

Plainsong is a novel by Kent Haruf.^[1] Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, it tells the interlocking stories of some of the inhabitants. The title comes from a type of unadorned music sung in Christian churches, and is a reference to both the Great Plains setting and the simple style of the writing.

The novel was adapted in 2004 into a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie on CBS.^[2] It is the first of a trilogy, the remaining two novels being Eventide and Benediction.

Plot summary

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The book follows several stories of families in a small town in eastern Colorado. Maggie is the link between many of the other characters and strands of the novel. She introduces Victoria to the McPheron brothers, and has a romantic relationship with Tom.

Central characters

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Tom Guthrie, a history teacher whose wife is growing more distant and disturbed.
Ike and Bobby, Tom's young sons that struggle with the abandonment of their mother.
Victoria Roubideaux, one of Tom's teenage pupils. When Victoria becomes pregnant, her alcoholic mother forces her to leave the house. Maggie Jones allows her to live with her until she is frightened by Jones's senile father. She later comes to live with the