Scott H. Abbott
Teoksen Immortal for Quite Some Time tekijä
Tekijän teokset
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Sukupuoli
- male
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Palkinnot
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 1
- Jäseniä
- 3
- Suosituimmuussija
- #1,791,150
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 5.0
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 1
- ISBN:t
- 2
What I can say is that I loved this book. Full disclosure, I know Scott, I've been hearing about this book for years, I know some of the stories from other venues. I'm a disaffected mormon who loves many mormons. I'm brotherless.
Scott calls this a fraternal meditation. It unpacks issues involved with family, love, mormonism, religion in general, homosexuality, culture, and familial -- especially fraternal love.
Scott's interlocutors are alive and terrifying in their critique of his narrative. His own voice is terrifyingly honest. He exposes what culture and well meaning love can do to humans who cannot live in that culture as themselves, and how insidious such attempts to shuttle us into little boxes can be. How deadly, in this case.
I wish I was writer enough to convey how beautiful this book is. I am anxious to begin my first re-read.… (lisätietoja)