Peace Like a River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802139252)

Leif Enger's debut novel, Peace Like A River, was launched to critical acclaim in 2001 and went on to sell over one million copies. Now a perennial, best-selling American classic, it is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, in which "there is magic... none more potent than Leif Enger's prose" (Newsday). Enger brings us eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been charged with murder. Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates.

Author: Leif Enger
ISBN-10: 0802139256
ISBN-13: 9780802139252
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 18
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 64033 / Peace Like a River

Award: Alex Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 09/01/2002 pg. 28
Christianity Today 12/09/2002 pg. 63
Christian Century 05/04/2010 pg. 33