The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint Paperback - 2012
by Brady Udall
At the beginning of this high-spirited novel of the American West, a seven-year-old boy on an Apache Indian reservation in Arizona has his head run over by a mail truck. But this is no tragedy, for not only does Edgar survive the accident--he maintains his innate goodness and his belief in the redeeming power of language. The result is a miracle of storytelling, bursting with heartache and hilarity.
From the jacket flap
"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.
Details
- Title The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
- Author Brady Udall
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2012-07-09
- ISBN 9780393341645 / 039334164X
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Boys, Apache Indians
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 08/19/2012, Page 24
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