Shawn Vestal
Autor(a) de Daredevils
Obras por Shawn Vestal
A.K.A. Charles Abbott, a Kindle Single 1 exemplar
Associated Works
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Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Spokane, Washington, USA
- Ocupações
- journalist
- Organizações
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly)
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 171
- Popularidade
- #124,899
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 13
- Línguas
- 2
The focal point of Vestal’s story is Loretta, a rebellious teenager from a fundamentalist Mormon family. As a proposed curative for her bad behavior, Loretta is married off as second sister-wife to fellow fundamentalist, Dean Harder (a name worthy, indeed, of masters like Hawthorne and Dickens).
Soon, Dean moves his entire clan, including Loretta, to his family’s land in Idaho, far from her parents’ home. Once in Idaho, Loretta finds common ground with Dean’s teen nephew Jason; that common ground being escape from the oppression of family and religion, escape to an outside world that may seem freer than it is.
Daredevils is a trip through time and space, a portrait of a mid-century America (the 1950’s through the 1970’s) that’s breathtaking in scope. But perhaps the most winning part of the book is the way this lost history comes to feel at once familiar and deeply engrossing. From Tolkien to Zeppelin to narration from Jason’s hero, Evel Knievel, pop culture references abound, presenting a counterpoint to the constrictive fundamentalism at the story’s core. This is the good and bad of our American mythology—even more so that of the American West—a land where freedom and madness seem so often to run hand in hand.
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