By Brady Udall
“Profound and stirring . . . brilliantly executed.”―Wall road Journal
“Rambling and beneficiant . . . it reads from time to time like a John Irving novel touched up by means of Roy Blount Jr. . . . candy, unhappy, and refreshing.”―New York occasions booklet Review
“[Edgar’s] soul is as spotless as John Wayne’s .45, and so is Udall’s sharp and rangy prose. His similes sting, his sentences pass bang, and his chapters roll just like the wagon wheels around the harsh Mormon wasteland of correct and wrong.”―GQ
“Extraordinary. . . . There are pages which are simply fall-down humorous. . . . It’s like not anything else you’ve ever read.”―Newsweek
“Vibrant, big-hearted. . . . A poignant, picaresque odyssey.”?―Chicago Tribune
“A really good first novel. . . . An adept mixture of humor and pathos.”―Los Angeles Times
“An inventive story [that] takes its middle from Dickens and its soul from America’s nice outlaw West.”―Elle
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