The Miracle Life Of Edgar Mint

Author: Brady Udall

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Price : 27.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780099286769
Publisher : Vintage
Imprint : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.296
Publication date : July 2002
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 26mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 26.95
Availability date : January 2011
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Author : Brady Udall
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Dewey classification : 813.6
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Pages : 432
BIC subject : Modern fiction
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With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this riveting picaresque novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences. Through it all, readers will root for this irresistible innocent who never truly loses heart, and whose quest for the mailman leads him to an unexpected home.

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A miracle of storytelling bursting with heartache and high spirits.

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Brady Udall, author of the highly-praised Letting Loose the Hounds, teaches at Franklin Marshall in Pennsylvania.

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