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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Brady Udall

Paperback | Pages: 428 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 6513 Users | 907 Reviews

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Title	:	The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Author	:	Brady Udall
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

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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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I frequently find first-person narratives told from the point of view of young children (in this case, a seven year old) to be both incredibly compelling and unbelievably infuriating at times. DO SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, MOVE MOVE MOVE. It's like a bad dream when your legs won't work. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint certainly had this anxious and powerless affect on me but ultimately I forgave the frustration because of the strength of the writer's voice (I also highly recommend The Lonely

- 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

Heartbreaking story of overcoming the odds. Lots of odds. Wonderful, but I gave 4 stars because I was so worried about Edgar the whole time. I think it's like when you see an actor and think, "oh that guy is such a crumb". Well, must be a great actor for you to remember such a role.



I love to be so pleasantly surprised by a book. Reading something like this is difficult, because I struggle greatly with obvious injustice, but there was the constant comfort of Edgar's attitude telling me that it was all okay. I love the way there was so little happening, and yet so much happening at the same time. I loved the way Edgar seemed to be oblivious to so many little nuances of what was happening, yet, even though he was the story teller, the reader knew EXACTLY what was going on. It

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

A story that runs the gambit of emotions. One that I had to put down just to go away and think about it. And it just keeps pulling you back even when you think you might not want to read more of the tragedy that is his early life.