- Brothers, Motherless families, Fathers and sons, Fiction
"Raised on tales of cowboys and pirates, eleven-year-old Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, and that it's up to us to "make of it what we will." Reuben was born with no air in his lungs, and it was only when his father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that his lungs filled.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Leif Enger
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- distributed by Publishers Group West, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Black Swan
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417616909
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