Peace Like a River
$24.56
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2018
Summary
A Family’s Unwavering Faith: A Journey Through Loss and Redemption
When bullies invade the home of Jeremiah Land, seeking trouble, they encounter more than they bargained for. Seventeen-year-old Davey stands ready with a rifle, leading to tragedy and an arrest for manslaughter. Young Reuben, who has witnessed his father’s miracles, and his sister Swede, are powerless to help Davey.
Davey escapes, disappearing into the wild. The Land family, feeling his absence, embarks on a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472154507 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472154509 |
| Author: | Leif Enger |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 125mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
You don’t see novels like this one very often. Peace Like a River reminds a reader of Kent Haruf’s Plainsong or even Norman MacLean’s A River Runs Through It. 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. * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
About The Author
Leif Enger
Leif Enger 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 Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national bestseller, No. 8 on Amazon’s Top 100 Editors’ Picks and a Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.
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