Douglas Thayer (1929–2017)
Auteur de Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Douglas Thayer
Will Wonders Never Cease: A Hopeful Novel for Mormon Mothers and Their Teenage Sons (2014) 3 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 5, Number 1, (Spring 1970) (1970) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 33, Number 2 (Summer 2000) (2000) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought Vol. 38 No. 3 Fall 2005 (2005) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 7, Number 3, (Autum 1973) (1972) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 8, Number 3/4 (Autumn/Winter 1973) (1973) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 4, Number 3 (Autumn 1969) (1969) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Irreantum: Exploring Mormon Literature - Vol. 4:3 (Autumn 2002) (2002) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 10, Number 2 (Autumn 1976) (1976) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 5, Number 4 (Winter 1970) (1970) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 39, Number 4 (Winter 2006) (2006) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 1999) (1999) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 32, Number 3 (Fall 1999) (1999) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 35, Number 1 (Spring 2002) (2002) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 39, Number 1 (Spring 2006) (2006) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 36, Number 2 (Summer 2003) (2003) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1929-04-19
- Date de décès
- 2017-10-17
- Lieu de sépulture
- Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Provo, Utah, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Provo, Utah, USA
- Études
- Brigham Young University
- Professions
- English professor
novelist
short story writer - Relations
- Thayer, Donlu DeWitt (wife)
- Organisations
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Brigham Young University
Membres
Critiques
Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories par Douglas H. Thayer
Some good introspective LDS stories
Possibly on an objective basis this book deserves a better rating than I gave it, but it was an arduous read for me, and the rating reflects my personal feeling about it.
Thayer wrote a short story called "The Red-Tail Hawk" with a plot similar to this novel's. Eugene England called that story "the finest Mormon story and one of the finest twentieth-century American stories". I think I might agree. You can read it for free at "https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-redtail-hawk/".
Thayer wrote a short story called "The Red-Tail Hawk" with a plot similar to this novel's. Eugene England called that story "the finest Mormon story and one of the finest twentieth-century American stories". I think I might agree. You can read it for free at "https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-redtail-hawk/".
Not what you'd expect from Signature Books
If you're like me, you've come to expect the books published by Signature to promote the revisionist agenda of LDS dissidents. (Their recent fiction has, in particular, an unusual number of oppressed Mormon homosexuals who end up dying by strangulation.) Well, in spite of themselves, Signature has published a wonderful book in _The Conversion of Jeff Williams_.
The plot summary that Signature prints on the back cover (and that Amazon has reprinted above) really seems to miss the point of the book. This is classic Thayer, with strong messages of redemption, grace, and love, conveyed by a story that is honestly told in simple, uncontrived language. It is so easy to take cheap shots at various types of characters perceived to be pervasive in the LDS community, but in _Jeff Williams_ Thayer adamantly refuses to do so. There isn't a character in this book who isn't portrayed with sympathy--a sign, I think, of Thayer's belief in the ability of grace to touch the most unlikely people.
In a fireside talk he gave shortly after he wrote his first novel, _Summer Fire_, Thayer opened my eyes to the beautiful message taught in Moroni 10:32-33, a message he said he tried to convey in that first book. Through his fiction, Thayer continues to teach me wonderful things.… (plus d'informations)
If you're like me, you've come to expect the books published by Signature to promote the revisionist agenda of LDS dissidents. (Their recent fiction has, in particular, an unusual number of oppressed Mormon homosexuals who end up dying by strangulation.) Well, in spite of themselves, Signature has published a wonderful book in _The Conversion of Jeff Williams_.
The plot summary that Signature prints on the back cover (and that Amazon has reprinted above) really seems to miss the point of the book. This is classic Thayer, with strong messages of redemption, grace, and love, conveyed by a story that is honestly told in simple, uncontrived language. It is so easy to take cheap shots at various types of characters perceived to be pervasive in the LDS community, but in _Jeff Williams_ Thayer adamantly refuses to do so. There isn't a character in this book who isn't portrayed with sympathy--a sign, I think, of Thayer's belief in the ability of grace to touch the most unlikely people.
In a fireside talk he gave shortly after he wrote his first novel, _Summer Fire_, Thayer opened my eyes to the beautiful message taught in Moroni 10:32-33, a message he said he tried to convey in that first book. Through his fiction, Thayer continues to teach me wonderful things.… (plus d'informations)
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I did not find Hooligan to be to my liking, but I'm not going to say it is a bad book. I found it to be a bit bland and not very exciting.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 29
- Membres
- 70
- Popularité
- #248,179
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 8
