| | 
|
|
 |
|
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Brady Udall. Vintage: 2002 (paperback). ISBN: 0375719180. 423 pages.
Guide not available
|
| |
|
"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 brave new words, Brady Udall joins the ranks of Tolstoy, Dickens, Jane Austen, and their ilk--all those who have contributed an unforgettable first sentence of a novel to the realm of literature--just as Edgar Mint, his feisty but sensitive hero, will soon join the ranks of our favorite fictional characters. You just can't help rooting for Edgar, the perspicacious young orphan whose first memory is of the left tire of a United States postal jeep grinding his tiny head into the hot gravel of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. From these inauspicious beginnings, Edgar sets out on a grand journey to discover his past and his purpose, making his way from the intensive care unit to a home for wayward American Indian kids to the bosom of a devout but deeply disturbed Mormon family.
|
| |
| |
contact us
