Now in trade paperback!
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Grove Press
Pub date April 8, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0802144171
$14.00 Trade Paperback
Atlantic Monthly Press / Grove Atlantic
( distributed by PGW)
www.groveatlantic.com
ISBN-13 978-0-87113-985-6
ISBN-10 0-87113-985-5
$24.00 Hardcover
Fiction
“Superbly written, utterly compelling . . . A cracking good adventure tale.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“An almost perfect novel, lively and engaging . . . A great read.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Deserves to become a classic.”—The Miami Herald
“An adventure of the heart and mind.”—The Washington Post Book World
“A sharp and brainy redemption tale . . . [Enger’s] laid claim to a musical, sometimes magical and deeply satisfying kind of storytelling.”—Los Angeles Times
also available:
PEACE LIKE A RIVER
by Leif Enger
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3925-2
ISBN: 0-8021-3925-6
$13.95 Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-795-1
ISBN: 0-87113-795-X
$24.00 Hardcover
Fiction
Book Sense-Book of the Year for Adult Fiction; Book Sense-76 Selection; A Book Sense Reading Group Suggestion; Time Magazine-Best Books of 2001; The Los Angeles Times-Best Books of 2001; New York Times-Paperback Best Seller; Los Angeles Times-Best Seller; Boston Globe-Best Seller; San Francisco Chronicle-Best Seller; Denver Post-Best Seller; Publishers Weekly-Best Seller.
MBA Bookseller Information
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SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME and Leif Enger’s bestselling PEACE LIKE A RIVER are excellent choices for reading groups. (See the reading group guides and other materials below for discussion topic ideas.) If you would like to inquire about an event with Leif Enger, please contact Deb Seager, Publicity Director at Grove Atlantic.
Downloads
NEW downloads for the trade paperback edition —
Full color sign/flyer for paperback (PDF)
Full color shelf-talker for paperback (PDF)
Paperback edition book cover photo (JPG)
- Midwest Connections Rebate Form (PDF)
— rebates not available on the paperback edition - Full color banner (JPG) – hardcover edition
- Large full-color sign (PDF) – hardcover edition
- Full color flyer (PDF) – hardcover edition
- Full color bookmark (PDF) – hardcover
- Reading group guide (PDF)
- Small B&W print ad (PDF)
- Interview with author Leif Enger (PDF)
- SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME book photo (JPG) – hardcover
- PEACE LIKE A RIVER book photo (JPG)
- Author photo (JPG)
- Author website (URL)
- Midwest Connections Generic Display Materials
About the Book
“Leif Enger has done it again: a novel that reads like a modern fable, with characters to cheer for and despise. A reformed bank robber begins a journey to reconcile with a long lost love. He is accompanied on this journey by a has-been author and chased by an obsessed ex-Pinkerton agent. What more can you ask for? Circus freaks? O.K. It has those too. For those of you who loved Peace Like a River, SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME will not disappoint.”
- Chris Livingston, The Book Shelf, Winona, MN“Two men, two friends, two cowboys…..and the whole West in which to ride, hide, explore dreams, evade those that follow, and live life to its fullest. This is a galloping book that begs to be savored by all armchair adventurers!”
- Nancy Simpson, The Book Vault, Oskaloosa, IA“I am just back from a bookselling conference called Midwinter Institute, hosted by the American Booksellers Association. The highlight of the weekend for me was meeting Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River. On the plane ride, I brought along a review copy of Enger’s new book that will be released in May, titled SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME. While I was pulling out my copy of the book, I noticed another bookseller across the aisle from me also pulling out the same book. We chuckled over this and plunged into our respective copies. At the conference, we attended an author reception one night, a room with 40 authors, 500 booksellers, wine, and cheese-it’s awesome, to say the least. We, of course, patiently waited in line to meet Leif Enger. When we reached the author, I told him about reading his book on the plane, and he told me, somewhat shyly, “I know, I was sitting behind you.” Furthermore, he visited Sister Wolf Books last summer, but didn’t identify himself to staff! You have a treat in store for you when Enger’s new book arrives in stores.”
- Jennifer Geraedts, Beagle Books, Park Rapids, MN“SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME contains all the elements of a wonderfully satisfying novel. Enger brings his unique and gifted voice as an old-fashioned storyteller to good use in this tale about an unassuming writer on an epic trip across the West in the year 1915. Populated with richly imagined, thoroughly credible characters, including a good bad guy and a bad good guy, a precociously knowing eleven-year-old, and Mexican girls, it is a tale of adventure, retribution, reconciliation and deep and abiding loves. Enger evokes the landscape and sense of place with the same care, lyricism, and joyful language with which he develops his story. Passionate fans of Peace Like a River will be delighted with this book and new Enger readers will be thrilled to discover him.”
-Tripp Ryder, Carleton College Bookstore, Northfield, MN“It’s been a long wait for the second novel from the writer of Peace Like a River. Enger’s new book is completely different, also wonderful.”
- Sally Wizik Wills, Sister Wolf Books“Original and elegant in a rugged sort of way.”
- Beverly Bauer, Redbery Books, Cable, WI
“I took Leif Enger’s new novel SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME on vacation with me and the best adventure I had was reading it. Enger has written an old time western. The kind we loved to read before they became the dark, violent property of current writers. There is still plenty of action in the book. For that matter there is plenty of violence but it is woven together and driven by the development of the main men who inhabit this story. SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME is a long, lingering journey across the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. It portrays a still young country just turning from outlaws on horses to heroes in Model T’s. Enger captures this growth sprit in our history with the perfect mix of nostalgia, anticipation and anxiety and places within the stark western landscape men who are seeking redemption, adventure and escape. This is an entirely different book than Enger’s first, Peace Like a River, which speaks to the author’s dexterity as a writer, but it was worth the wait. And I mean it.”
- Sue Zumberge, Common Good Books, St. Paul, MN
One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times best seller, Leif Enger’s first novel Peace Like a River captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor-a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and of the failed writer who goes with him.
In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket-”a man fading, a disappointer of persons”-has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself.
Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over two decades ago, has finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back into his past-heading to California to seek Blue’s forgiveness. Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with his fugitive guide-a journey that will test the depth of his loyalties, the inviolability of his morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee from the relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who’s been hunting Glendon for years, Monte falls ever further from his family and the law, to be tempered by a fiery adventure from which he may never get home.
With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME often recalls the Old West’s greatest cowboy stories. Much more than just a tall tale, it is also about an ordinary man’s determination as he risks everything in order to understand what it’s all worth, and follows an unlikely dream in the hope it will lead him back home.
Leif Enger is also the author of Peace Like a River. He was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio for nearly twenty years. Enger lives in Minnesota with his wife and two sons.
