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Synopsis
Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction, particularly ENDER'S GAME, but SAINTS, first published in 1984 as a romance paperback, is a finely crafted historical fiction about the early days of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. The heroine, Dinah Kirkham, leaves behind the cruelties of industrial 19th century England, and follows a group promising to build in America a city of God. Dinah eventually becomes one of the wives of Joseph Smith, the Church's founder. Though Card is himself a Mormon, he portrays the characters as complex and flawed, even though his sympathies clearly lie with Smith and Dinah as they attempt to carve out a way of life and create a new world.
| Size | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"This ambitious novel will appeal to anyone interested in a sensitive examination of the roots of religious feeling." (starred review)
(01/29/2007)
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