| Edition |
First edition. |
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
| Descript |
300 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals--from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man; to Tom, a journalist and Virgil's oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Middle West -- Fiction.
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Memory disorders -- Patients -- Fiction.
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Middle West -- Fiction.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0802128785 |
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9780802128782 |
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