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The Lost Book of Mormon

A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Mi

By Avi Steinberg

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A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with the "Book of Mormon," one the most enduring and influential works of American literature.
In 1830, shortly before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a twenty-four-year-old farmer named Joseph Smith claimed he'd discovered a large stack of inscribed golden plates buried near his family's farm in western New York. After transcribing the text from ancient hieroglyphs into modern English, he published what is either the most astonishing historical record to survive from ancient times or what is likely the first and certainly the most influential great American novel. And yet, beyond religious circles, few people have even a vague notion of the story contained within the "Book of Mormon." In "The Lost Book of Mormon," Avi Steinberg seeks to correct this oversight. A fascinated nonbeliever, our intrepid author spent a year and a half traveling the path laid out by Smith's epic. His quest took him from Jerusalem, where the book's first prophet, Lehi, lived; to the ruined Mayan cities of Central America, where he spent sixteen days with a bus tour of believers who'd come to see physical evidence of the ancient Israelites' presence; to upstate New York, where he participated in the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant, in which a cast of 700 perform an elaborate dramatization of the Mormon story on the site where Smith unearthed the ancient chronicle; and finally to the center of the American continent, Jackson County, Missouri, which Smith proclaimed as the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. Threaded through these quirky set pieces is an argument for taking the "Book of Mormon "seriously as a work of American storytelling. Literate and funny, personal and provocative, the genre-bending "The Lost Book of Mormon" boldly explores the allure of the book and the abiding power of story.

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- SKU: 9780385535694
- Manufacturer: DOUBLEDAY & CO
- ISBN 13: 9780385535694
- Language of Text: English
- Publication Date: 10/01/2014
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Avi Steinberg
- Page Count: 304
- Width: 6.00 inches
- Height: 1.20 inches
- Length: 8.30 inches
- Weight: 0.07 pounds
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