So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Paperback)

from sleahey

In 1915 former train robber Glendon Hale undertakes a journey to escape his guilt and redeem himself. For his companion, he has convinced Monty, the story's witness and narrator, to accompany him, and he has a Pinkerton detective fast on his heels who is obsessed with capturing him. Throughout th...

from Donna828

It is 1915 and the days of the Wild West are almost over, but the oddball characters in this rambling story don't seem to know it. Becket is a washed-up writer who, instead of going back to his old job, decides to accompany his newfound friend Glendon on a trip to Mexico in search of the wife he ...

from richardderus

I started this book annoyed. I did NOT like the pseudoformal English that the author posits regular people used a century ago, felt it was such a cutesy way of making the story feel "authentic" and so contrived as to make me want to smack the perpetrator. I got over it. Glendon the train robber c...

from april85fool

For the most part this was a good story. The ending was kind of easy to see coming from page one. But my biggest aggravation with the author's writing style came in his need to constantly ruin his own plot line. To say that he over used foreshadowing is an understatement, he flat out would tell y...

from chndlrs

This is Leif Enger's second book. His first, Peace Like a River, would be a hard act to follow as it was a practically perfect book. I enjoyed So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel, but I didn't love it. Monte Beckett is a one-shot author. He wrote one best-selling book, quit his day-job at the p...