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Author:

Enger, Leif, author.

Title:

Virgil wander / Leif Enger.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Subject:

City and town life--Middle West--Fiction.
Memory disorders--Patients--Fiction.
Middle West--Fiction.
Large type books.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print core

ISBN:

1432858092
9781432858094

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1049576988

LCCN:

2018038963

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

FDPC194 -- Upham Memorial Library (Fredericksburg)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)