The Lost Book of Mormon: A Quest for the Book That Just Might Be the Great American Novel

The Lost Book of Mormon: A Quest for the Book That Just Might Be the Great American Novel
ISBN-10
0307948366
ISBN-13
9780307948366
Category
Religion
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
2015-11-24
Publisher
Anchor
Author
Avi Steinberg

Description

Is The Book of Mormon a Great American Novel? Avi Steinberg thinks so. In this quirky travelogue—part fan nonfiction, part personal quest—he follows the trail laid out in Joseph Smith’s book. From Jerusalem to the ruined Mayan cities of Central America to upstate New York and, finally, to Jackson County, Missouri—the spot Smith identified as the site of the Garden of Eden—Steinberg traces The Book’s unexpected path and grapples with Joseph Smith’s demons—and his own. Literate and funny, personal and provocative, the genre-bending The Lost Book of Mormon boldly explores our deeply human impulse to write books, and affirms the abiding power of story.

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