Peace Like a River - by Leif Enger (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by "Time, " and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller "Peace Like a River" is now available in paperback. In "lyrical, openhearted prose" (Michael Glitz, "The New York Post"), Enger tells the story of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Leif Enger's debut novel, <i>Peace Like A River</i>, was launched to critical acclaim in 2001 and went on to sell over one million copies. Now a perennial, best-selling American classic, it is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, in which "there is magic... none more potent that Leif Enger's prose" (<i>Newsday</i>). Enger brings us eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been charged with murder. Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Peace Like A River</i></b><p> <b><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><p> Leif Enger ... is a natural-born storyteller, and his novel moves in a current that can be poetic and slow or as tumultuous as whitewater rapids. This novel has the power to convince that, despite sorrow, human experience is a miracle of ordinary truth and extraordinary love. -<b><i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</b></i> <p>A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing ... a journey you simply must not miss. -<b><i>Christian Science Monitor</b></i> <p>What allows <i>Peace Like a River</i> to transcend any limitations of belief and genre is its broad, sagacious humanity ... There is magic here, none more potent than Enger's prose.-<b><i>Newsday</b></i><p> "<i>Peace Like a River</i> serves as a reminder of why we read fiction to begin with." --<i><b>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><p> "If you like a ripping good story told in robust prose that gives you goose bumps, latch onto this book - more than a novel of miracles, it is truly a miraculous novel." --<i><b>The Seattle Times </i></b><p> "You don't see novels like this one very often. <i>Peace Like a River</i> reminds a reader of Kent Haruf's <i>Plainsong</i> or even Norman MacLean's <i>A River Runs Through It</i>. It's got that pure American loss of innocence theme, that belief in and fascination with miracles, that insistence on the goodness of men outside of the law." --<i><b>Los Angeles Times Book Review </i></b><p> "A compelling blend of traditional and artfully offbeat storytelling . . . a miracle well worth witnessing . . . Grade: A."--<i><b>Boston Globe </i></b><p> "If ever there was a time for a novel of faith and redemption-a quiet book of old-fashioned verities-this is it. --<i><b>New York Post </i></b><p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>LEIF ENGER</b> 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 <i>Los Angeles Times</i> and <i>Time</i> Magazine's Best Books of the Year. He is also the author of<i> So Brave, Young, and Handsome </i>and <i>Virgil Wander</i>. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.
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