Brady Udall
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English
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If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. In the course of Brady Udalls high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a hellish boarding school for Native...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Eleven stories featuring men protagonists. The story, The Ballad of Ball and Chain, is one man's idea of marriage, Midnight Raid is a man's confrontation with his ex-wife and her new husband, and in The Opposite of Loneliness, a man finds the answer to loneliness in service to the less fortunate.