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Title details for So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger - Wait list

So Brave, Young and Handsome

by Leif Enger
Dan Woren
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One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, and rugged story of 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, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart 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 finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back into 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–a journey that will test the depth of his loyalties, the inviolability of his morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they 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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  • Release date

    April 22, 2008

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415955819
      • File size: 244608 KB
      • Duration: 08:29:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dan Woren's voice for Minnesota writer (and story narrator) Monte Becker is straightforward, flat, and a little bored. This approach is a perfect fit as Becker is looking for adventure after the unexpected success of his first novel and the string of writing failures that followed. Becker thinks he's found it in the strange personage of Glendon Hale. But he has no idea what's to follow, nor do listeners, as Becker accompanies the enigmatic Hale into wild adventures of the fading Old West of 1915. The story has a large cast of characters, and Woren personalizes each, giving particular strength to Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton villain. Siringo's rough and ugly voice makes him a great auditory counterpoint to Becker, who becomes his unwilling travel mate. S.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 26, 2008
      Enger's second novel is a marvelous tale of an unsuccessful writer and an elderly train robber on a cross-country journey to confront past demons. Dan Woren's narration is steadfast and resolute throughout, offering two unique characters each with his own colorful view of the ever-encroaching modern world. While there is little in the way of varying dialects and tones at work, Woren offers believable and realistic protagonists that immediately capture the listener's imagination and holds it until the end. Simultaneous release with the Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 28).

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