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Loading... The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novelby Brady Udall
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is such a wonderful story about a boy who is not really sure where he belongs. The author does a great job of making us feel empathy for Edgar and his circumstances. Some of the things that happen to this boy are just sad but he has a determined spirit and continues on. with his lfe. he does nt spend time dwelling on what he doesn't have and part of that is just not being in a surrounding where he can see anyone doing better. (  )DustinW | Apr 8, 2009 |   Read this for a book club that I facilitated at my first Librarian job. (  )rfewell | Jan 27, 2009 | Sad. Unbelievably sad. The ending is positive but the book is sad at times to read. Not depressing sad however as Udall writes with humour mixed in. A very touching book. ( )pippi-longstockings | Oct 2, 2008 | If you love the writing of John Irving I urge you to read this moving and wonderfully funny debut novel by Brady Udall. Udall tackles the serious topics of race, religion and identity with an expert hand. Edgar Mint’s journey of discovery begins at the age of eight after he ends up in hospital following a near fatal when the mailman runs over Edgar’s head. After his recuperation Edgar is sent to an Apache orphanage before being fostered by a Mormon family. Edgar’s wonderful narration manages to turn what should be a tragic life-story into a heart-warming and comical novel. ( )DeadGoodBooks | Apr 15, 2008 | The exquisitely written story of a half Apache/half caucasian boy in search of the mailman who ran over his head as a young child on the reservation. Edgar was like one of those dolls that, no matter how often you knock them down, they always bounce back up. A sad, sometimes ironic, saga that inevitably gives one the assurance that, no matter how bad things are, they will always improve before they go sour again! ( )lcrouch | Sep 19, 2007 | 0.076 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375719180, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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