The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint +++Signed++

Brady Udall

ISBN 10: 0224050575 / ISBN 13: 9780224050579

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2001

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An UNREAD fine in fine illustrated softcover, FIRST edition , FIRST Printing,++++SIGNED *** on title page by the author. #2. Seller Inventory # 000087

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint +++Signed++

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be 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.

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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.