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The Lonely Polygamist : a Novel by Brady Udall is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Amazon.com ReviewEmNephiHelamanNaomiJosephinePaulineNovellaParleyGale... When times get tense--and they often do--for Golden Richards, the title patriarch of Brady Udall's The Lonely Polygamist, he turns to a soothing chant of the names, in order, of his 28 children. (It's also practical, when he needs to sort out just which toddler is showing him a scab, and which teen is asking if he can come to her 4-H demo.) While The Corrections to John Irving. --Tom NissleyFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. A family drama with stinging turns of dark comedy, the latest from Udall (_The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint_) is a superb performance and as comic as it is sublimely catastrophic. Golden Richards is a polygamist Mormon with four wives, 28 children, a struggling construction business, and a few secrets. He tells his wives that the brothel he's building in Nevada is actually a senior center, and, more importantly, keeps hidden his burning infatuation with a woman he sees near the job site. Golden, perpetually on edge, has become increasingly isolated from his massive family—given the size of his brood, his solitude is heartbreaking—since the death of one of his children. Meanwhile, his newe
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Brady Udall
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393062625
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (9,790 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14