The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel - Couverture souple

Udall, Brady

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0375719180 ISBN 13 : 9780375719189

Editeur : Vintage Books, 2002

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Superb' Scotland on Sunday

'Original and touching' The Times

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close.

With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, and trouble accompany Edgar - the irresistible innocent who never truly loses heart, and whose quest for the mailman leads him to an unexpected home.

'A story that tears at you and calls you back to it... There is also a human heart beating in here, as beautiful and profound as your own'Junot Diaz

'Quirky, charming and very funny' Mirror

'One of the most enjoyable reads of the year' Time Out

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close.

With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. In the course of Brady Udall’s high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a hellish boarding school for Native American orphans, a well-meaning but wildly dysfunctional Mormon foster-family, and the loss of most of the illusions that are supposed to make life bearable.

What persists is Edgar’s innate goodness, his belief in the redeeming power of language, and his determination to find and forgive the man who almost killed him. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is a miracle of storytelling, bursting with heartache and hilarity and inhabited by characters as outsized as the landscape of the American West.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375719180
• ISBN 13: 9780375719189
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 423