Virgil Wander

Leif Enger

ISBN 10: 0802128785 / ISBN 13: 9780802128782

Published by Grove Press October 2018, 2018

About this Item

Very Good book: May have minor surface flaws, such as store stickers/light soiling/minor bumping and shelf wear to be expected. generally clean and Tight binding. No underlining or highlighting. Slight bend to top corner of pages 231 to 258 similar to dog earring but less severe, otherwise the book is in fantastic condition. Signed first edition.

Seller Inventory # 72007

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Virgil Wander
• Publisher: Grove Press October 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802128785
• ISBN 13: 9780802128782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Used Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction & Literature

About this title

Synopsis

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart

Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals—from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man, to Tom, a journalist and Virgil’s oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.

With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.

About the Author

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 Magazine’s Best Books of the Year. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national bestseller, No. 8 on Amazon’s Top 100 Editors' Picks and a Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.