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Title	:	The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Author	:	Brady Udall
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 428 pages
Published	:	May 21st 2002 by Vintage (first published January 1st 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Contemporary. Book Club

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Brady Udall

Paperback | Pages: 428 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 6513 Users | 907 Reviews

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If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. In the course of Brady Udall’s high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a hellish boarding school for Native American orphans, a well-meaning but wildly dysfunctional Mormon foster-family, and the loss of most of the illusions that are supposed to make life bearable. What persists is Edgar’s innate goodness, his belief in the redeeming power of language, and his determination to find and forgive the man who almost killed him. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is a miracle of storytelling, bursting with heartache and hilarity and inhabited by characters as outsized as the landscape of the American West.

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Original Title:	The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
ISBN:	0375719180 (ISBN13: 9780375719189)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2002), Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (2002), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2002)

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Ratings: 3.97 From 6513 Users | 907 Reviews

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Looking for the best boyhood tale since A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY? This is it! A masterpiece by Brady Udall that has flown a bit under the radar. Excellent and highly recommended.

Is there a word for that sweet spot a great author hits with the voice of his story - the one that lulls you into believing youre leaving this world and entering his? Some writers hit it off and on throughout various works and, if they do it often enough, we ascribe to them words of greatness. But what if the writer hits it from page one and never loses it? What do we call it then? Whatever the word, Brady Udall finds it, and keeps it, in The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, perhaps the best debut

Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I must admit I was leery for a while, for my mind had no clue as to what little boys and young men think about. It was hard for me to get past the "initiation" type activities of school mates. This book was so intriguing, the author knows how to grab your attention, and equally important, how to hold it. As I read I always have questions and he answered them, all of them. I finally get to add something to my favorites shelf. I will definitely be looking for

Udall chronicles the life of one odd little boy, Edgar Mint. He is subjective to a number of hardships starting with an absent father and an alcoholic mother, but things go downhill fast for him from there. Most painful are the chapters about his years at a boarding school for troubled Native American kids. He is brutally bullied and either ostracized or coerced into criminal behavior by a couple of hoodlums who are older, bigger and more brutal than he. Year after year people close to him

- Everything I've told you is second hand but surprisingly detailed - Like a Coen Brother's/Buster Scruggs tale- Briefly goes into the third person at the start of a section and then back into the first?- Miracle? More like unfortunate and horrible. He literally eats shit!- Seriously Mormons, Lamanites are savages and became American Indians. Good your religion is dumb.- Man, what is up with Barry?!? Goddamnit Barry!- I'm not saying that Edgar showing up in the Marsden lives screwed their lives

This is one of those few books that should not have any details disclosed about it - no spoiler alerts, no hints, no outlines or summaries. I would even vote to remove the descriptions from the back covers of every copy in existence. Here's why...The beauty of this story comes from the reader's innocence and the display of curiosity and interest that occurs with every turn of the page. If I divulged even the tiniest detail, it would surely remove one of the magical sparks of this book, and for

I picked this up as an audiobook from Audible.com because Brady Udall is going to be one of the featured speakers at The Festival of Faith and Writing for which I had registered. I'd not heard of the book nor the author, so I wasn't sure what to expect.Throughout the book, I wavered back and forth between, "Wow. I can't wait to hear what happens next," and "Good Lord, I can't listen to another minute of this." Being one who is not a big fan of profanity or flippant references to sex in a book, I