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Virgil Wander

A Novel

By: Leif Enger

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A man seeks to rediscover his broken Midwestern community in a novel that “brims with grace and quirky charm” by the author of Peace Like a River (Bookpage). Movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Though Virgil survives, his language and memory are altered. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together the past. He is helped by a cast of curious locals—from a stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son, to the vanished man’s enchanting wife, to a local journalist who is Virgil’s oldest friend. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. 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 journey into the heart of America’s Upper Midwest.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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0802146686

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9780802146687

Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

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Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

A bag with ten copies of the title that may also include miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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0802139256

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9780802139252

I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

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I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) novelist Leif Enger. A story-teller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s accomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake. I Cheerfully Refuse epitomizes the “musical, sometimes magical and deeply satisfying kind of storytelling” (Los Angeles Times) for which Leif Enger is cherished. A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, this latest novel is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.

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Grove Press

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0802162959

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9780802162953

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

By: Leif Enger

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So Brave, Young, and Handsome

By: Leif Enger

“An almost perfect novel” of yearning, adventure, and redemption in the dying days of the Old West from the bestselling author of Peace Like a River (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Minnesota, 1915. With success long behind him, writer, husband, and father Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose . . . until he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale. Plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife two decades ago, Hale is heading back West in search of absolution. And he could use some company on the journey. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Becket agrees to travel into Hale’s past, leaving behind his own family for an adventure that will test the depth of his loyalties and morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee the relentless former Pinkerton Detective who’s been hunting Hale for years, Becket falls ever further into the life of an outlaw—perhaps to the point of no return. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, So Brave, Young, and Handsome examines one ordinary man’s determination to risk everything in order to understand what it’s all worth, in “an old-fashioned, swashbuckling, heroic Western . . . [An] adventure of the heart and mind (The Washington Post Book World).

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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1555848494

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Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

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Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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087113795X

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I Cheerfully Refuse

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Virgil Wander

A Novel

By: Leif Enger

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So Brave, Young, and Handsome

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Virgil Wander

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Virgil Wander è un impiegato comunale nonché il proprietario dell’unica sala cinematografica di Greenstone, una cittadina del Midwest sulla quale da tempo aleggia un’aura di sfortuna. Mentre l’uomo sta viaggiando lungo la costa del Lago Superiore, la sua auto vola fuori strada e finisce in acqua. Quando viene tirato fuori, la sua memoria e il suo vocabolario sono compromessi; risvegliatosi in quella che per lui è una sorta di nuova vita, si ricorda di molte persone, ma non di tutte. Inizia così a rimettere insieme i pezzi, tentando di ricostruire la sua storia personale. Può contare sull’aiuto della gente del posto: Rune, anziano fumatore di pipa giunto in città per indagare sulla misteriosa scomparsa di suo figlio Alec; Bjorn, il figlio di Alec, un adolescente giudizioso e pieno di passioni, che vuole costruirsi una vita propria e smetterla di essere solo “figlio di quell’uomo”; Nadine, la madre, splendida e affascinante vedova, che porta avanti il lavoro del marito mentre è assediata dai pretendenti che respinge; Tom, un giornalista amico di vecchia data, e i vari membri della famiglia Pea, ognuno alle prese con la sua personale tragedia. Dopo dieci anni di assenza, l’autore di La pace come un fiume torna con un nuovo romanzo: un’esilarante miscela di umorismo e inventiva che è anche un viaggio nel cuore disperato dell’America di oggi, un luogo dove i fantasmi appaiono sulle acque del lago, i vecchi fanno volare gli aquiloni contro i fulmini e c’è sempre la possibilità di incontrare Bob Dylan che passeggia su Main Street mentre in città impazza un festival in onore della sfortuna. «Virgil Wander è uno scintillante gioiello sul senso della vita e le seconde possibilità». «The New York Times Book Review» «Enger è uno scrittore apprezzato da chiunque abbia a cuore le parole. Questo libro è pieno di piccole gemme». «The Seattle Times» «Virgil Wander è un romanzo frenetico, divertente e mistico sulla speranza, l’amicizia, l’amore e il rapporto tra una città e la sua gente». «Bookpage» «La scrittura di Enger mi ha colpito: è così semplice, così vivida e così potente allo stesso tempo, e i suoi personaggi prendono vita in un attimo». Tana French, «Vulture»

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