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The Street-legal Version of Mormon's Book
Michael Hicks
The Street-legal Version of Mormon's Book
Michael Hicks
Not a "simplified" version of the Book of Mormon, but a completely rewritten paraphrase, with a contemporary voice hovering somewhere in the realm of J. D. Salinger, Hunter Thompson, and some generic humanist academic/poet, i.e., me. An affectionate, meditational dramatization and commentary. From the Introduction: "Why 'street-legal'? That?s a term we use for souped-up cars?streamlined and powerfully efficient but also decorative, with decals, pinstriping, and tricked-out doodads?that still can be ridden in normal lanes of traffic. They?re not cars meant for everyday errands, to be sure. Offroad is their normal habitat. But the only thing they usually lack to be 'normal' is a better muffler. This paraphrase of the Book of Mormon is like that. I?ve streamlined a lot of passages, put them in terse, up-to-date vernacular, thinking that?s what one would have done if one were scratching the book out on metal plates. I?ve tried to muscle up the prose. But I?ve also added lots of linguistic decals: digressions, snippets of commentary, queries, and even humor, which the original editor, Mormon, apparently cut."
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 19 juillet 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781477615836 |
Éditeurs | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 504 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 26 mm · 666 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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