So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger
So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger
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So Brave, Young and Handsome

Author: Leif Enger

Narrator: Dan Woren

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/22/2008

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.

In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself.

Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over two decades ago, has finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon aims to travel back into his past–heading to California to seek Blue’s forgiveness. Beguiled and inspired, Monte soon finds himself leaving behind his own family to embark for the unruly West with his fugitive guide–a journey that will test the depth of his loyalties, the inviolability of his morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee from the relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who’s been hunting Glendon for years, Monte falls ever further from his family and the law, to be tempered by a fiery adventure from which he may never get home.

About Leif Enger

Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota and has worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio since 1984. He lives on a farm in Minnesota with his wife and two sons.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Sylvia on 2009-02-14 19:00:33

I couldn't relate to any of the characters - I loved Peace Like A River - but I didn't even finish listening to this one. The system requires that you at least choose one star, but I don't really think it's even one star.

Goodreads review by Snotchocheez on August 28, 2016

4 stars I can't be a Leif Enger completist after two novels. No! Arrrgh! Alas, this terrific writer only has two novels under his belt in his (fifteen year) career, but I can assure you, when he gets the gumption to write again, I will be there waiting. Yeah, and no, 2008's So Brave, Young, and Hand......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on April 10, 2008

"I said, 'Most men never have the chance to be both things at once, the hero and the devil.' 'That is ignorant. Most men are hero and devil. All men. That is what ruins it with wives.' 'She wanted just the hero?' 'Bad men or good she would've had me either way. She couldn't endure both, however. She sa......more

Goodreads review by Jolie on June 04, 2008

Oh, I wanted so much to like this book...I loved Peace Like a River, and would recommend that one wholeheartedly. And I was prepared to love this one, too, but just...couldn't. I did love Monte Beckett at the beginning--his angst over writing 1,000 words a day in order to turn out a follow-up to his......more

Goodreads review by Francisco on January 10, 2019

I'm not sure it's worth while me telling you what this book is about. Because this is one of the books that is more about the how (or maybe even the why) then the what. I would have a better shot of conveying what the book is about if I told you that it was like the smell of an orange or one of thos......more

Goodreads review by R.F. Gammon on February 20, 2025

It’s ironic that an author who wrote a runaway bestseller and then took ten years to get another book out is writing a book about the exact same scenario. I definitely fear that this book suffers because of peace like a river. From a lesser author, this would be a marvelous book. The problem with bo......more