Virgil Wander / Leif Enger.
"An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802128782
- ISBN: 0802128785
- Physical Description: 300 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2018.
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Genre: | Novels. |
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- 27 of 27 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Adair County Public Library | A F Enger (Text) | 34029002427812 | Fiction | Available | - |
Bollinger County Library | F ENG (Text) | 32713200013655 | Fiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Sunrise Beach | FIC ENGER (Text) | 31320003644064 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | ENG (Text) | 33042004568518 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Carthage Public Library | FIC Enger, Leif (Text) | 34MO2001802034 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Festus Public Library | Fic Enger (Text) | 32017000077820 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F ENGER Leif (Text) | 30061000261210 | Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | F ENGER Leif (Text) | 30051000283272 | Fiction | Available | - |
Keller Public Library-Dexter | A Fic Eng (Text) | 138803 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | F Enger (Text) | 3803603609 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Virgil Wander
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Virgil Wander
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.