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      The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

      by Brady Udall
      Published
      Jun 2001
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
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      432
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      "Marvelous . . . Edgar Mint is nobody's Everyman, but he is the hope and the pain of a child looking for, and eventually finding, a home."—Los Angeles Times

      Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar Presley Mint's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. As he is 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.

      "An ingenious tale [that] takes its heart from Dickens and its soul from America's great outlaw West." —Elle

      "Extraordinary . . . Fall-down funny . . . It's like nothing else you've ever read." —Newsweek
      "Vibrant, big-hearted . . . A poignant, picaresque odyssey." —Chicago Tribune
      "Be prepared to fall head over heels for Edgar Mint . . . a charming and delightful narrator you can't help but cheer on through the end." —The Oregonian
      "Profound and stirring . . . brilliantly executed." —The Wall Street Journal

      "Rambling and generous . . . it reads at times like a John Irving novel touched up by Roy Blount Jr. . . . Sweet, sad, and refreshing." —The New York Times Book Review

      Genres & Themes

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      General Fiction Western

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      Historical

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      May 2002 Vintage ISBN 0375719180
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      Apr 2004 Turtleback Books ISBN 0606305068
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