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Rent Peace Like a River
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pub Group West
Published: Aug 2002
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 320
Synopsis
Reuben Land narrates this tale, looking back on his childhood to remember when he and his sister and his father tracked his brother Davy--who has escaped from prison--across North Dakota to the Badlands. As Reuben tells the story, his sister Swede is composing her own precocious adventure yarn, in rhymed couplets, about the hero, Sunny Sundown, and a bandit named Valdez.
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Reviews
this is a weird book told by a boy whose dad is some kind of miracle working angel, whose little sister is a prodigy writer, and whose older brother kills two bullies who break into their home. the brother escapes from jail, and the family packs up to find him. it feels a bit like it should be a very long and bit darker episode of touched by an angel. but, i liked it.