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Peace Like a River
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Hardcover
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Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (May 1, 2002)
9781587242120 | details & prices | 456 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $29.95
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from Atlantic Monthly Pr (August 1, 2001)
9780871137951 | details & prices | 313 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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New edition from Transworld Pub (September 2, 2002)
9780552999359 | details & prices | 368 pages | 0.12 × 0.20 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.25
About: When Davey escapes from jail, he steals a horse, and disappears.
Reprint edition from Atlantic Monthly Pr (September 1, 2002)
9780802139252 | details & prices | 320 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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With Chad Lowe (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Harperaudio (April 1, 2008)
9780061457876 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled.
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With Chad Lowe (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Harperaudio (September 1, 2001)
9780694525836 | details & prices | 4.50 × 6.25 × 2.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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from Demco Media (December 1, 2002)
9780606260046 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $22.34
About: Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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Reprint edition from Paw Prints (November 3, 2008)
9781439568583 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $22.95
About: Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled.
from Turtleback Books (September 1, 2002)
9781417616909 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $25.70
About: Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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Publisher Wheeler Pub Inc
Publication date May 1, 2002
Pages 456
Binding Hardcover
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781587242120
ISBN-10 1587242125
Dimensions 1.50 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.75 lbs.
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Original list price $29.95
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Amazon.com description: 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

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