The Backslider
by Levi S. Peterson
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"Recognized as a Mormon classic twenty years after its release, The Backslider features longstanding Christian conflicts played out in a scenic, sparsely populated area of southern Utah. A young ranch hand, Frank Windham, conceives of God as an implacable enemy of human appetite. He is a dedicated sinner until family tragedy catapults him into an arcane form of penitence preached among frontier Mormons. He is saved by an epiphany that has proven controversial among readers, who interpret it show more either as an extreme impiety or as a moving and entirely plausible rendering of a biblical theme in a western setting."-- show lessTags
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Pretty good LDS novel which gets into guilt and redemption, etc. Made me uncomfortable which is probably good.
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Levi S. Peterson is a professor emeritus of English at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah He is the author of two collections of short stories, The Canyons of Grace (1982) and Night Soil (1990); two novels, The Backslider (1986) and Aspen Marooney (1995); and the autobiography A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Teaming (University of Utah show more Press, 2006). show less
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- Original publication date
- 1986
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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