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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A poetically written search for self, purpose, place and God beginning through the small lense of one town and moving through the kaleidoscope of the natural world. ( ) Although this may seem to be a simple tale, and not an unfamiliar one these days - stories of oppressed women breaking free of their strict religious upbringing and finding a whole wide world out there are something of a sub-genre - this stands out from the pack. I read this book because I read the author's rant on a subject dear to my heart, and had a feeling I'd like her prose. I was wrong - I love her prose. The language in this story is what sets it apart; from the first sentence, I was drawn into a world which lived and breathed around me. The landscapes lived, the characters jumped off the page and demanded to be heard, and the message seeps into the reader's mind through every carefully chosen word. It's a novel of ideas; it's about how religious belief can live alongside atheism; about how love isn't dependent on temple undergarments or which version of scripture one may or may not follow, and it delivers on those themes with much careful thought while never losing sight of the story. If I have a concern, it is that I think the concept of destiny is not really resolved; the central characters skirt round the idea that they feel pre-ordained to be together without really reconciling it with their abandonment of religion, and I think I'd have liked a little more time to have passed before the pivotal moment which draws them back takes place - it all felt a little rushed; as if all the action had taken place during a two week vacation; there may have been time to let the various relationships breathe before plunging them all into crisis. Ordinarily, then, I'd give this four stars. But, oh, that prose... inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
A Mormon woman in a secluded Idaho town casts aside her duties to church and family to follow a wandering artist through the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains.Lyrical and hypnotic, Baptism for the Dead is an unflinching examination of faith and its lack; of love, obligation, and the transformative power of art. A paean to the landscape and culture of the American West, from the author of Tidewater.Praise for Tidewater:A sweeping story, incredbly detailed... A raw but honest depiction of this fascinating woman.- Historical Novel ReviewHawker vividly captures the beauty and tragedy of the first contact [between] European and Native American cultures.- Michael Wallace, author of The Righteous Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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