by Leif Enger
I don't even remember when, or why I picked up So Brave, Young and Handsome (although the sticker on the back tells me I bought it somewhere in the Euro-zone - it must have been an impulse purchase at a train station!) and it probably would have sat on my shelf for a lot longer than the two years it...
This was a fantastic read from start to finish. Enger is a wordsmith and a raconteur of the first order, accomplishing both extraordinary use of language and great storytelling with equal aplomb. Though the book involves some dramatic scenes, I just love how the book lopes along. It is upbeat withou...
Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Report: Failing novelist and failure of a farmer Monte Becket, Minnesotan manque, meets Glendon the gangster via the good offices of his son the pathologically friendly, and to the undisguised disgust and reluctant encouragement of his dreary, negative wife, takes off to...
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