Author
Brady Udall
1 award win, 2 nominations across 2 books.
"You know more about people when they're getting the shit kicked out of them than you do at any other time. And so as a writer, that's sort of your job."
The Lonely Polygamist
Published 2010-05-03 · 608 pages
Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all mid-life crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart.
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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Published 2002-05-21 · 423 pages
"With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. The trials of Edgar, half Apache and mostly orphaned, begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain, and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences.
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