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The miracle life of Edgar Mint : a novel / Brady Udall.
Van Pelt Library PS3571.D36 M57 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Udall, Brady
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Head--Wounds and injuries--Fiction.
- Head.
- Foster home care--Fiction.
- Foster home care.
- Head--Wounds and injuries.
- Apache Indians--Fiction.
- Apache Indians.
- Arizona--Fiction.
- Arizona.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Picaresque literature.
- Physical Description:
- 423 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [2001]
- Summary:
- With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this riveting picaresque novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. The trials of Edgar, half Apache and mostly orphaned, begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain, and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences. Through it all, readers will root for this irresistible innocent who never truly loses heart, and whose quest for the mailman leads him to an unexpected home.
- Contents:
- Saint Divine's 11
- Willie Sherman 97
- Richland 237
- Stony Run 389.
- ISBN:
- 0393020363
- OCLC:
- 45446182
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