Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories write by Douglas H. Thayer. This book was released on 1983. Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories
Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories write by Douglas H. Thayer. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
People of Paradox
People of Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People of Paradox write by Terryl L. Givens. This book was released on 2007-08-29. People of Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around the globe. Throughout the last century and a half, Givens notes, distinctive traditions have emerged among the Latter-Day Saints, shaped by dynamic tensions--or paradoxes--that give Mormon cultural expression much of its vitality. Here is a religion shaped by a rigid authoritarian hierarchy and radical individualism; by prophetic certainty and a celebration of learning and intellectual investigation; by existence in exile and a yearning for integration and acceptance by the larger world. Givens divides Mormon history into two periods, separated by the renunciation of polygamy in 1890. In each, he explores the life of the mind, the emphasis on education, the importance of architecture and urban planning (so apparent in Salt Lake City and Mormon temples around the world), and Mormon accomplishments in music and dance, theater, film, literature, and the visual arts. He situates such cultural practices in the context of the society of the larger nation and, in more recent years, the world. Today, he observes, only fourteen percent of Mormon believers live in the United States. Mormonism has never been more prominent in public life. But there is a rich inner life beneath the public surface, one deftly captured in this sympathetic, nuanced account by a leading authority on Mormon history and thought.
The Tree House
The Tree House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tree House write by Douglas Thayer. This book was released on 2009-01-05. The Tree House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
Hooligan
Hooligan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hooligan write by Douglas Thayer. This book was released on 2007. Hooligan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
