Plains Song: For Female Voices

by Wright Morris

Book Overview

Nowhere in [Morris's] fiction does emotion emerge from detail so beautifully as in this precise and vivid book. . . . The triumph of the book, in terms of craft, is that we experience the sense of the slow passage of time so necessary to such a story. . . . The heart of the book is its tactful rendering of the emotional history of several women. . . . Precise, satisfying, and complete.OCo"New York Times Book Review""

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803282672
• ISBN13: 9780803282674
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

There goes another one.

A fine novel, a masterpiece of concision, considering the breadth of the story. What saddens me is that there are no other Morris novels in print. This one is no better or worse than any of his other wonderful novels, but evidently rates publication because it has the word "female" in the title. His best novel, The Field of Vision, also won the National Book award.