The backslider
By: by Levi Peterson
Published: 2012
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781560852186
Subjects: Mormons; Cowboys; Fiction
Description: "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 either as an extreme impiety or as a moving and entirely plausible rendering of a biblical theme in a western setting."--
Table of contents: title: Marshalled in the ranks of sin; title: Witness at Canaan Peak; title: Goodby to Jeremy; title: God strikes; title: The outcasts; title: Farewell, all sinful pleasures; title: The wedding; title: Yoked to unbelievers; title: Dross and refuse; title: The cowboy Jesus.