Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (English) Paperback Book

Description: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger What happens when ordinary lives are shattered by extraordinary circumstances? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When Israel Finch and Tommy Basca, the town bullies, break into the home of school caretaker Jeremiah Land, wielding a baseball bat and looking for trouble, they find more of it than even they expected. For seventeen-year-old Davey is sitting up in bed waiting for them with a Winchester rifle. His younger brother Reuben has seen their father perform miracles, but Jeremiah now seems as powerless to prevent Davey from being arrested for manslaughter, as he has always been to ease Reubens daily spungy struggle to breathe. Nor does brave and brilliant nine-year-old Swede, obsessed as she is with the legends of the wild west, have the strength to spring Davey from jail. Yet Davey does manage to break out. He steals a horse, and disappears. His family feels his absence so sorely, the three of them just pile into their old Plymouth, towing a brand new 1963 Airstream trailer, and set out on a quest to find him. And they follow the outlaw west, right into the cold, wild and empty Dakota Badlands.Set in the 1960s on the edge of the Great Plains, PEACE LIKE A RIVER is that rare thing, a contemporary novel with an epic dimension. Told in the touching voice of an asthmatic eleven-year-old boy, it revels in the legends of the West, resonates with a soul-expanding sense of place, and vibrates with the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Above all, it shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates. Author Biography Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel Peace Like a River, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award and was one of the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazines Best Books of the Year. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national bestseller, No. 8 on Amazons Top 100 Editors Picks and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota. Review You dont see novels like this one very often. Peace Like a River reminds a reader of Kent Harufs Plainsong or even Norman MacLeans A River Runs Through It. Its got that pure American loss of innocence theme, that belief in and fascination with miracles, that insistence on the goodness of men outside of the law. * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Long Description When Israel Finch and Tommy Basca, the town bullies, break into the home of school caretaker Jeremiah Land, wielding a baseball bat and looking for trouble, they find more of it than even they expected. For seventeen-year-old Davey is sitting up in bed waiting for them with a Winchester rifle. His younger brother Reuben has seen their father perform miracles, but Jeremiah now seems as powerless to prevent Davey from being arrested for manslaughter, as he has always been to ease Reubens daily spungy struggle to breathe. Nor does brave and brilliant nine-year-old Swede, obsessed as she is with the legends of the wild west, have the strength to spring Davey from jail. Yet Davey does manage to break out. He steals a horse, and disappears. His family feels his absence so sorely, the three of them just pile into their old Plymouth, towing a brand new 1963 Airstream trailer, and set out on a quest to find him. And they follow the outlaw west, right into the cold, wild and empty Dakota Badlands.Set in the 1960s on the edge of the Great Plains, PEACE LIKE A RIVER is that rare thing, a contemporary novel with an epic dimension. Told in the touching voice of an asthmatic eleven-year-old boy, it revels in the legends of the West, resonates with a soul-expanding sense of place, and vibrates with the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Above all, it shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates. Review Quote You dont see novels like this one very often. Peace Like a River reminds a reader of Kent Harufs Plainsong or even Norman MacLeans A River Runs Through It . Its got that pure American loss of innocence theme, that belief in and fascination with miracles, that insistence on the goodness of men outside of the law. Promotional "Headline" What happens when ordinary lives are shattered by extraordinary circumstances? Details ISBN1472154509 Author Leif Enger Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 2018 ISBN-10 1472154509 ISBN-13 9781472154507 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-10-04 Imprint Corsair Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.6 Language English UK Release Date 2018-10-04 Pages 336 Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-10-08 AU Release Date 2018-10-08 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123672227;

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