The miracle life of Edgar Mint - Books.Infosec.Exchange

423 pages

English language

Published 2001 by Norton.

ISBN:: 978-0-393-02036-6
OCLC Number:: 45446182

"With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. The trials of Edgar, half Apache and mostly orphaned, begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. The trials of Edgar, half Apache and mostly orphaned, begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Armamix reviewed The miracle life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

Review of 'The miracle life of Edgar Mint' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Depressing, sad and brilliantly wonderful at the same time. Only picked it up to pass the time, but kept going throughout. How this isn't cinematized yet I don't know. Perfect for the screen.

Subjects

Head -- Wounds and injuries -- Fiction.
Foster home care -- Fiction.
Apache Indians -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Arizona -- Fiction.