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02469aam a2200361Mi 4500 001 4E1C425AFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190923s2019 meu ed 000 1 eng 020 $a 1432869124 020 $a 9781432869120 035 $a (OCoLC)1123176464 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $e rda $d OCLCO $d SILO 100 1 $a Enger, Leif, $e author. 245 10 $a Virgil Wander / $c Leif Enger. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 519 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a 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 humour 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 master storyteller. 650 0 $a Amnesia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Eccentrics and eccentricities $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Loss (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Traffic accidents $v Fiction. 650 0 $a City and town life $z Middle West $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 655 0 $a Large type books 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310012810.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20220104013348.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20200204020843.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E1C425AFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search