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The 'Peace'
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Hit debut novel by Leif Enger
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"It's not likely you'll read
a better piece of fiction this year.'"
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hcart-1humping storytelling
and sentences that sing,
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I!rui!«l iM()COf'll> conlrontiOll S <0l'0' But what allows Peace
Like a River 10 transcend
any limitation s of belief and
genre is its broad, saga~ious
humanity. m,hin to. c,",,",,' ci .n _"'""'.@«I .. ,II .... oddly'"""'8 h,
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"'" .1"'01" d.,., " I>ic h ;, w~ i There is magic here,
none more potent than
Leif Enger's prose."
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Nleif Enger may have unwil­
lingly written the perfect
book for an anxious lime ....
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thing to a winner this fall,
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leu ""''''''' '0.><1=' ;,ilo in '"" ,in 0/ "me.: -M.orl. Soli;' 0",.,;, '''' ~ Uif eller there was a time for
a nOllel of faith and redemp­
tion-a quiet book of old­
fashioned lIerit ieS-oIH. i, i,.
W,;"o" in IV'I"I. op<.<\<"d prose.
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poh< .. d"""., It's a joutney
you simply must not miss."
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1"" Chd""n St~ """""', "Enger has wril1en one of
the year's best nOllels ....
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To ~ i' .. 'igh, .,lei/ Eng<, 00.. i.
his novel is nothing short
of miraculou s .... who, ". """"1,n-.bI< bee"""" ... ,...-d'"'f'\'
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"".n. Peace like a Riller
reminds a reader of Kent
Haruf's Plainsong or ellen
Norman Maclean 's A Riller
Runs Through It. 1f.;;oI th., pur<
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NATIONAL BESTSEllER
Over 125,000 copies in print
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