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Reuben Land narrates this tale, looking back on his childhood to remember when he and his sister and his father tracked his brother Davy--who has escaped from prison--across North Dakota to the Badlands. As Reuben tells the story, his sister Swede is composing her own precocious adventure yarn, in rhymed couplets, about the hero, Sunny Sundown, and a bandit named Valdez.
 
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Let There Be Peace on Your Bookshelf

Date of Review:  Oct 15, 2001
The Bottom Line: This novel makes you want to learn how to play the trumpet, just so you can go out into the street and blow a loud, exultant fanfare. It's that good.
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By now, the coming-of-age novel is a tried-and-true convention of literature, but seldom has it been as true as what?s on the pages of Leif Enger?s remarkable novel Peace Like a River.

Enger takes the best of writers like John...
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Date of Review:  Jan 10, 2002
The Bottom Line: In a word, miraculous.
Review: Three things happened when I finished this book. First, tears sprang to my eyes. Not of sadness nor of laughter, but from amazement that a book can be so well written. Next I shot off this email to two friends, subject: ?Get thee to a bookstore.?...
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Peace Like a River - Leif Enger - rather tedious reading

Date of Review:  Nov 20, 2005
The Bottom Line: Reading the book was rather like being in the car with a very chatty kid and on a very long trip.
Review: I'd seen rave reviews on "Peace Like a River" and thought it sounded like a book I'd enjoy. "One of Time Magazine's Top Five Books of the Year" and also noted by Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, and the LA Times, Leif Enger's debut novel was...
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Unique style. Some interesting parts.
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Hard to buy in many places. Very...
 
 
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Authors Leif Enger
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships • True Crime
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  New York Times Book Review: "[A]s clich?d as [Enger's] basic enterprise is, he manages to infuse sections of this novel with some surprisingly lively writing and deftly turned sentences. But ultimately the book suffers from a surplus of pretension...and a dearth of surprises. Enger's world, full of simple pleasures and populated by deep-thinking na?fs, seems unlikely to have ever existed, in this century or any other."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr (September 01, 2002)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.8 lbs.
ISBN: 9780802139252
 
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Leif Enger's rhapsodic novel about a father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota is a breathtaking celebration of family, faith, and America's pioneering spirit. Through the voice of eleven-year-old Reuben, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboy stories, Peace Like a River tells of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been controversially charged with murder. Sprinkled with playful and warmhearted nods to biblical tales, classic American novels such as Huckleberry Finn, the adventure stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Westerns of Zane Grey, Peace Like a River brilliantly incorporates the best elements of all these genres and ultimately earns its own prominent and enduring place on the shelf among them.Reuben Land was born with no air in his lungs, and it was only when his father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that his lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma thenceforth, but he is a boy who knows firsthand ...
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