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So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press
May 2008
On Sale: April 22, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0871139855
EAN: 9780871139856
Hardcover
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A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a
River, Leif Enger’s new work is a rugged and nimble story
about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the
claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed
writer who goes with him. In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost his sense
of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives
simply with his wife and son. But when he befriends outlaw
Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience
presents itself. Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but
the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over
two decades ago, has lured him from hiding. As the modern
age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back to
his past--heading to California to seek Blue’s forgiveness.
Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving
behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with
his fugitive guide. As they desperately flee from the
relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who’s been
hunting Glendon for years, Monte falls ever further from
his family and the law, to be tempered by a fiery adventure
from which he may never get home.
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