Plains Song, for Female Voices (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Midwest, Chicago, Feminism, Farms, farmers, or farming, London, Women’s rights, Nebraska
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Nebraska, Madison County, NE
Plains Song, for Female Voices is the last novel Morris wrote and arguably one of his best. A fitting capstone to a distinguished literary career, the book received the prestigious American Book Award for Fiction in 1981. In this book, Morris returns to the Nebraska setting he had so painstakingly covered in previous Nebraska novels such as The Home Place, The Works of Love, and Ceremony in Lone Tree. This time, however, he tells his story through the eyes of three women, Cora, Madge, and Sharon Rose Atkins. In doing so, he employs third-person and...
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