People of Paradox

People of Paradox PDF

Author: Terryl C. Givens

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2007-08-23

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0195167112

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In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, to the global spread of the Latter-Day Saints. Here is a religion shaped by an authoritarian hierarchy and individualism, intellectual investigation, existence in exile and a yearning for acceptance by the larger world.

Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories

Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories PDF

Author: Douglas H. Thayer

Publisher: Mormon Arts & Letters

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780850511000

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Poised on a decisive moment, a story may follow the fractional turnings of a character choosing his way through a crisis, or it may follow him into the gap between the limitations of his own understanding and the full enlightenment of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The result may be devastation; it is more often renewal. Winner of the Award in Fiction from the Association for Mormon Letters.

Wasatch

Wasatch PDF

Author: Douglas Thayer

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0984360344

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Douglas Thayer's third collection presents a dozen of his career-best stories, including several that have never before appeared in print. Wasatch is the next chapter in Thayer’s recent literary success, preceded by Hooligan, his landmark memoir about growing up Mormon in Provo, Utah, and by his acclaimed novel The Tree House, about the trials and redemption of missionary and soldier Harris Thatcher.

Hooligan

Hooligan PDF

Author: Douglas Thayer

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0978797159

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"One of the finest writers the LDS Church has yet produced has now turned his talent to his own growing-up years. Entertaining, wise—and it's even true." —Orson Scott Card In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West—fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II. Known in some circles as a Mormon Hemingway, Thayer has created a richly detailed work that shares cultural DNA with Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. His narrative at once prosaic and poetic, Thayer captures nostalgia for a simpler time, along with boyhood's universal yearnings, pleasures, and mysteries.

The Tree House

The Tree House PDF

Author: Douglas Thayer

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0978797175

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When Harris Thatcher's father dies, the boy's journey into manhood becomes complicated with questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciousness of death. Harris soon finds himself preaching the Mormon gospel as one of the first missionaries to West Germany following the devastation of World War II. Little does he know that his own war horrors await him upon his return home, when he is drafted into the Korean War. Starting out in the same 1940s-era Provo, Utah, that Thayer brought to life in his memoir Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood, this novel deepens and darkens as Harris is drawn into his harrowing Korean ordeal. Will he survive the war, not only physically but also emotionally and spiritually? And if he does survive, what other trials does death hold in store?

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