Ebook {Epub PDF} The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

 · The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. For all the occasional unexpectedness of its prose style, plot and characterisation, the atmosphere that rises above Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. In the course of Brady Udall's high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a hellish boarding school for Native American orphans, a well-meaning but wildly dysfunctional Mormon foster-family, and the loss of most of the illusions that are supposed to . The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is an immensely enjoyable story, with an unforgettable hero whose troubles and yearnings are completely captivating. While Edgar suffers many losses, including the loss of most of the illusions that make people's lives bearable, he maintains his innate goodness and his belief in the redeeming power of language.

After reading a review of Udall's newest novel "The Loneliest Polygamist", I was intrigued, did a little research regarding the author and discovered his acclaimed novel "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint". Edgar Mint is an authentic and sympathetic character. He is lovable. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (Paperback) Published May 21st by Vintage Books. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Brady Udall. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is a miracle of storytelling, bursting with heartache and hilarity and inhabited by characters as outsized as the landscape of the American West. About the Author Brady Udall is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lonely Polygamist, The Miracle Life of Edgar.

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is an immensely enjoyable story, with an unforgettable hero whose troubles and yearnings are completely captivating. While Edgar suffers many losses, including the loss of most of the illusions that make people's lives bearable, he maintains his innate goodness and his belief in the redeeming power of language. by Brady Udall. 1. "If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close; my careening, zigzag existence, my wounded brain and faith in God, my collisions with joy and affliction, all of it has come, in one way or another, out of that moment on a summer morning when the left rear tire of a United States postal jeep ground my tiny head into the hot gravel of the San Carlos. Brady Udall's character Edgar Mint is a survivor. As in "one who survives." By all means he should have been dead, would sometimes rather have been dead, and rarely took action to avert situations in which he could have died. At seven years of age he wakes from a coma unable to remember his life to that point.