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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

A Novel

by Brady Udall

ISBN: 0375719180
ISBN-13: 9780375719189
Format: Paperback

Summary

Edgar is 7 years old and living a bleak existence on an Apache reservation in Arizona. His father is lone gone, and his mother is an alcoholic. When the boy is hit by a car and wakes up after a three-month coma, his major need is to find the driver of the car that hit him and assure him that he has survived. Udall's novel is full of Dickensian situations and characters transported to the American southwest.

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"A picaresque coming-of-ager by Udall invokes nearly every archetype of the genre while still managing to be fresh and vigorous, and unveiling a rarely seen slice of American life in the process."

   -- Kirkus

"[A] rambling and generous first novel....Contemporary fiction is full of cynical, world-weary protagonists. One of the strengths of this big, uneven novel...is the lovely and complex character of Edgar, an innocent whose struggle to survive is at odds with his fundamentally gentle natures....Other characters are less rich, the denouement seems rushed, and the book is too long. But it is also sweet, sad and refreshing."    -- Jennifer Reese

   -- New York Times Book Review

"[A] dark coming of age novel....THE MIRACLE LIFE OF EDGAR MINT is...a very American story-a tale of innocence preserved-in which the absence of social barriers rather than the ability to move effortlessly past them accounts for the progress of the hero."    -- Stanley Trachtenberg

   -- Times Literary Supplement

"Brady Udall delivers a powerful first novel....Udall's novel is pregnant with richly textured characters outside the fringe of mainstream fiction."    -- Jeff Metcalf

   -- Bloomsbury Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Pages: 423

Publisher's Notes

Half Apache and orphaned, Edgar's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven when he is run over by the mailman's jeep, after which he is taken from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, and eventually to an unexpected home on a quest for the mailman.

Other Editions

Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc (2001) - from $1.00
Paperback Reprint - Random House Inc (2002) - from $1.00

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