Peace Like a River

by Enger, Leif
ISBN: 9780552999359
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  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Enger, Leif
  • ISBN: 9780552999359
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 1.00 x 0.20
  • Publication Year: 2002

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  • Top read of 2025!

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    Shaleem D. - 1 month ago

    This is just a wonderful book. Told through the eyes of a man recounting his youth, it flows with elegance, and suspense, and finishes in a highly satisfying way. I love this authors writing style. This book changed me in subtle yet profound ways.

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  • The Novel For Everyone

    Amanda B. - 8 months ago

    Leif Enger's first novel, Peace Like A River, is a masterpiece among fiction. This is the novel that I hand to people who want to like fiction, but don't. From the first page, the story of Reuben Land and his family will leave you breathless. Enger's magical prose and master storytelling send you on an adventure across the country, into family life, and through a harrowing journey of an asthmatic boy trying to make sense of a series of unexpected events, the first of which is his taking the first breath: he spends much of the novel wondering if his father can work miracles, tells us all he's seen and leaves us to make of it what we will. I love a story that stands on its own; that says, "here's what I saw; make of it what you will," because it reads like life with a pinch more clarity and tightness of plot. Enger does not merely put words on paper; he burns a world onto the hearts of his readers. If this book weren't worth reading for its surprising plot, richly developed protagonist, beautiful prose, and incredible concrete language, it would be worth reading just to get to know Reuben's sister Swede. She is one of the best young heroines I've met. Part Scout Finch, part Anne of Green Gables, but mostly just...Swede, she navigates our Reuben through life's difficulties via the epic poem she writes over the course of the novel. She understands more than anyone that stories don't always turn out the way we expect or want...and sometimes it is better that way. A young writer fighting her way through an epic poem that subtly reflects the plot of the novel she's in: this is Hamlet's play-within-a-play: brilliant, brilliant! Peace Like A River is a novel for the ages. Everyone should read it, have a good belly laugh, a good cry, and then read it again. I couldn't put it down until the end, and I can't wait to pick it up again.

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