Join us as the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College co-presents with
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Leif Enger
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables
A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger’s new work, So Brave, Young and Handsome (Grove/Atlantic, $24), is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him. In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives simply with his wife and son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself. Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with his fugitive guide. As they desperately 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.
Presented in collaboration with Books & Books.
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