Item Detail
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28253
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2
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English
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The Witty and Witless Saints of a Nobel Prize Winner
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Autumn/Winter 1971
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6
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3 & 4
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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48-62
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An analysis of the Nobel Prize-winner Halldor Laxness' novel about the Mormons, Paradise Reclaimed. Although the book has gone unnoticed throughout the Mormon community, the author of this article states, "the novel remains one of the best fictional explorations of the Mormon experience, universalized, to be sure, as a comment on the Utopian in all of us." [From the text]