This fable features a group of people and animals - survivors of a stress-related plague. In a country mansion, Julia, heavily pregnant, exists in a lazy blur as she is gradually joined by the few remaining survivors and a host of wise animals who can all communicate with humans and each other.
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This fable features a group of people and animals - survivors of a stress-related plague. In a country mansion, Julia, heavily pregnant, exists in a lazy blur as she is gradually joined by the few remaining survivors and a host of wise animals who can all communicate with humans and each other.
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Add this copy of Plainsong to cart. $12.47, very good condition, Sold by Fantastic Literature Ltd rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rayleigh, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1992 by Pan.
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Ms. Grabien's book was found by me at the tender age of thirteen in a bargain bin in a dollar bookstore, where at the time, fifty cents was pulling teeth from my mother. I finished the book by flashlight under my blankets on a Sunday school night in my eighth grade year, and I finished it in the dark confines of my make believe spread in bed, and turned it's last page closer to 4am, a feat my fine friends in which I have never completed since, and in a few hours the magic was done. I remember vividly after completing a certain chapter or paragraph or a ramble between characters and letting my minds eye create the world in which I was just immersed in. I know people know what I am referring to. Isn't that talent so magical. That the mind can create the place that you are just discovering?!!
I am glad that I had enjoyed the wonderment of Deborah's post apocalyptic pseudo relegious prose long before my minds eye discovered and created the worlds of Lewis and Tolkien and Pullman. As I fear I would have found it adolescent and without merit compared to the greats. Indeed it lays it's own pace, perhaps all too easy, all too simplistic, but never fails to make the reader understand exactly what is happening at all times. The portrait of a lush landscape and total immersion to the world around us is exceptionally done and is tender in its introducing us to new characters, The pace is good, especially for budding teenage years, those years of clinging onto some chided hope that another world exist other than the horrors of the one we live in. It is on epic standards to todays headlines: in a world that is wiped away by the 'Big One' and all that is left is children and animals, and in their innocent way, through having to facilitate with their surroundings, learn to communicate with each other. Five adults are discovered throughout the book, and there is no lead up to them, no real history, which is wonderful. We as readers assume that they just fit into the the larger story, and somewhere along the lines, the children portrayed and the adults will find each other, and in that discovery, the answers to the Big One and the world wiped out of its horrors will be answered.
The tones of christianity and the like are ever present, but Grabien does exceptionally well not to turn it into some relegious torch for the fundamentalist or purist to jump all over. It leaves the reader with the magic of creating the next page in their minds eye. I love that. I love how a book can simply stir so many images in your mind and sit there a bit, and toy with your emotions. Tolkien is too in depth to do that; it's too detailed, everything is already touched, everthing has substance and is tangible. Grabien allows you to paint your own portrait and discover the magic of the countryside, no doubt inspired by her own landscape in her beautiful country.
It was 11 years or so from my first reading, and then naturally losing the book or lending it out in travels, to my second viewing of it in the Providence Library; when just by a chance fluttering mind image, the authors name crept up from deep in my psyche and as I perused the racks upon endless racks of word salad, I came upon a bounded edition of Plainsong, and sat in that aisle for the afternoon reading it again, letting me escape as I did a decade prior, to the world that I so enjoyed as a child.
I implore you buy this and finish it the day you get it, and then to pass it on to friends so they too can see what the prose I wrote here is all about.
