'A wry, sympathetic portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional family' New Yorker From the author of the legendary novel The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint.
Brady Udall is the author of Letting Loose the Hounds, The Miracle
Life of Edgar Mint, an international bestseller, and the newly
released The Lonely Polygamist. His work has appeared in The Paris
Review, Playboy, GQ and Esquire, and his stories and essays have
been featured on National Public Radio's This American Life. He
teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University, and lives in
Boise, Idaho and Teasdale, Utah with his wife and children.
His great-great grandfather, David King Udall, was a polygamist.
His second wife, Ida Hunt Udall, was his great-great grandmother.
Udall demonstrates a wonderful ability to move the reader one way
or the other. He is a brilliant comic writer, and this novel is
full of laugh-out-loud moments and running jokes. But he is equally
adept at heartbreaking tragedy. Combining the two superbly here, he
has recreated the terrible wonder and wonderful terror of family
life, in a novel that's not larger than life, but just as large, as
difficult, as funny and as poignant as everyday life itself
*Sunday Herald*
It's funny, but not simply a comic noel; Udall has some wonderful
observations about the dynamics of family life
*The Times*
An exceptional tale of an exceptional family.
*The New York Times*
A dark, funny and insightful probe into the ways we can be lonely
even when surrounded
*Sunday Telegraph, Australia*
Memorable... Shining above all in this joyful celebration of
communal living is Rusty, the misfit whose explosive fate will have
profound effects on the whole, enormous family.
*Daily Mail*
Some people might be saying the latest David Mitchell book or the
most recent Martin Amis, but for me, so far, The Lonely Polygamist
is the novel of 2010
*Book Munch*
Udall, author of the well regarded The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint,
posesses a comic touch that is occassionally reminiscent of Richard
Russo or John Irving. And while his style is usually as
effortlessly plain-spoken as the people he depicts, he is capable
of impressive rhetorical flights
*Sunday Times*
Udall is the real thing: a writer with an instinctive feel for the
human condition worthy of Steinbeck or Twain
*Daily Telegraph*
At every turn, Udall plays with his readers' expectations of
believers and non-believers, husbands and wives...That this longish
book is kept largely aloft by a structure of humorous conceits is
an indication of the author's strengths as a storyteller.
*Independent*
Udall demonstrates a wonderful ability to move the reader one way
or the other. He is a brilliant comic writer, and this novel is
full of laugh-out-loud moments and running jokes. But he is equally
adept at heartbreaking tragedy. Combining the two superbly here, he
has recreated the terrible wonder and wonderful terror of family
life, in a novel that's not larger than life, but just as large, as
difficult, as funny and as poignant as everyday life itself -- Doug
Johnstone * Sunday Herald *
It's funny, but not simply a comic noel; Udall has some wonderful
observations about the dynamics of family life * The Times *
An exceptional tale of an exceptional family. * The New York Times
*
A dark, funny and insightful probe into the ways we can be lonely
even when surrounded * Sunday Telegraph, Australia *
Memorable... Shining above all in this joyful celebration of
communal living is Rusty, the misfit whose explosive fate will have
profound effects on the whole, enormous family. -- Ross Gilfillan *
Daily Mail *
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