The Lost Book of Mormon - Steinberg, Avi
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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.…mehr

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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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Avi Steinberg is the author of Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Culture Desk blog. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, and n+1.