RAPKE- 1
Dorothy Allred Solomon - 2
Effigy
Alissa York - 3
Zane Grey - 4
David Ebershoff - 5
Chris and Louisa
“ Ralph P. and Judith H. Vander Heide spent 30 years working at this combination of fiction and very well researched history to render an accurate story of 125 years of Mormonism, polygamy, renegade believers/practioners and the behind the scenes activities, thinking, and both benevolent and misdeeds. Louisa is fictious. The reader experiences with her her very short-lived bliss with Joseph Smith. Following the great westward trek, she marries again. She faces the attacks on Mormons in Utah. Her family becomes well to do. Her great-grand daughter is a liberal, rich kid of the sixties. After greatly debating with herself, she marries Mark who has three wives. He is a former missionary who founded his own quite intellectual brand of religion. He moves with the girls to Big Sur and lectures there--against Mormonism--for Hermann Hesse, and the do your own thing crowd, but he is against drugs. An extremely rabid member of a cult based on early Mormonism based in Mexico tries to convert Mark's little group. Hardship, religion, tne rise of Mormonism, the history of the USA and the entanglement of Mormonism with the federal government are all explained along with careful evaluations and analysis of THE church and its rituals, dominance of Utah, refusal to face truth are all covered topics. The married authors are excellent writers who have studied with the best and who well know the places, scenes, philosophies, way of life and WELTANSCHAUUNG of all their characters. The plot is tight. The authors do not waste time telling, rather they show. They render. As a work which covers so much, so well and still remains a good read. It probably should be ranked no 1 in the genre. PLEASE, READ IT!! I am intrigued at those who criticize or rank apparently without reading. „
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