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: Peace Like a River

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802139252
ISBN: 0802139256
Label: Atlantic Monthly Press
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 20, 2002
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Sales Rank: 2450
Studio: Atlantic Monthly Press



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Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation in need of comfort. "A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing," Peace Like a River is "a collage of legends from sources sacred and profane -- from the Old Testament to the Old West, from the Gospels to police dramas" (Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor). In "lyrical, openhearted prose" (Michael Glitz, The New York Post), Enger tells the story of eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and its remarkable conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates. Leif Enger's "miraculous" (Valerie Ryan, The Seattle Times) novel is a "perfect book for an anxious time ... of great literary merit that nonetheless restores readers' faith in the kindness of stories" (Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press).

Amazon.com Review:
To the list of great American child narrators that includes Huck Finn and Scout Finch, let us now add Reuben "Rube" Land, the asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of Leif Enger's remarkable first novel, Peace Like a River. Rube recalls the events of his childhood, in small-town Minnesota circa 1962, in a voice that perfectly captures the poetic, verbal stoicism of the northern Great Plains. "Here's what I saw," Rube warns his readers. "Here's how it went. Make of it what you will." And Rube sees plenty.

In the winter of his 11th year, two schoolyard bullies break into the Lands' house, and Rube's big brother Davy guns them down with a Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks out of jail and goes on the lam. Swede is Rube's younger sister, a precocious writer who crafts rhymed epics of romantic Western outlawry. Shortly after Davy's escape, Rube, Swede, and their father, a widowed school custodian, hit the road too, swerving this way and that across Minnesota and North Dakota, determined to find their lost outlaw Davy. In the end it's not Rube who haunts the reader's imagination, it's his father, torn between love for his outlaw son and the duty to do the right, honest thing. Enger finds something quietly heroic in the bred-in-the-bone Minnesota decency of America's heartland. Peace Like a River opens up a new chapter in Midwestern literature. --Claire Dederer



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - READ THIS BOOK...YOU WON'T REGRET IT!
This is a wonderful book. Something different for a change. I have read some of the negative responses that the characters aren't believable. It's FICTION. Don't pass up a wonderful opportunity to be entertained!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sharper than heartwamring.
Peace like a River is narrated by an asthmatic boy in the Land family. The story is adventurous and unpredictable. The children are fun and the adults varying from admirable, entertaining, worry-filling, scary.

Faith is a staple of the Land family and thereby a large part of the book. It is fascinating and not preachy; it was recommended to me by an atheist friend (who remains so). I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and found the book wholly encouraging.

Though the narrator ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Faith and Justice
I think when you read Peace Like a River, you have to do so with a certain grain of salt. There are many things that don't add up, a few head scratching moments, but ultimately the journey is one of faith for the Land family, especially young Reuben, who has more than one experience with faith. There are some irritations along the way. (I, like many, found Swede's character to be a bit perplexing and far-fetched. After all, there aren't many nine years old that can spout out poetry right and left, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - an unlikely cast for a novel of loyalty and love
An asmatic boy who wasn't supposed to live, a father who makes miracles, a nine year old who writes epic poems, and a fugitive older brother- an unlikely cast for a novel of loyalty and love. But what a story!

Set in the Minnesota countryside and North Dakota Badlands of the early 1960s, on the most simple level, this is a story about one family's quest to retrieve its most wayward member- before the FBI does. On a more profound level, it's a tale of faith, growth, love and impossibilities. ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A good book for children
Interspersed with poems about fictional outlaws and with much reference to real life legendary criminals, the novel does gather apace but events are rather predictable and bear much similarity to other classic tales. The author does a fair job of narrating as a young boy; however, the story is more suited to readers of the same age.


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