Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart

Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is cruising along at medium altitude when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals--from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man, to Tom, a journalist and Virgil's oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.

With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a formidably gifted (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.

Leif Enger grew up in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio before penning his successful debut novel, Peace Like a River, which received the Independent Publisher Book Award and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine. So Brave, Young, and Gorgeous, his second novel, was likewise a national bestseller, reaching No. It was a Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award Honor Title for Fiction and ranked #8 on Amazon's Top 100 Editors' Choices. He and his wife, Robin, call Minnesota home.

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ISBN 13	9780802128782
ISBN 10	0802128785
Title	Virgil Wander
Author	Leif Enger
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Black Cat
Year published	2018-10-02
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.