Peace like a river / Leif Enger.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press, 2021Edition: 20th Anniversary editionDescription: viii, 313 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802139252
- 0802139256
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | ENGER, LEIF | Available | 33111010894935 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Leif Enger's debut novel, Peace Like A River , was launched to critical acclaim in 2001 and went on to sell over one million copies. Now a perennial, best-selling American classic, it is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, in which "there is magic... none more potent than Leif Enger's prose" ( Newsday ). Enger brings us eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been charged with murder. Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates.
Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.