Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood

One of the finest writers the LDS Church has yet produced has now turned his talent to his own growing-up years. Entertaining, wiseùand it's even true. ùOrson Scott Card In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American Westùfishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II. Known in some circles as a Mormon Hemingway, Thayer has created a richly detailed work that shares cultural DNA with Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. His narrative at once prosaic and poetic, Thayer captures nostalgia for a simpler time, along with boyhood's universal yearnings, pleasures, and mysteries.

• | Author: Douglas Thayer
• | Publisher: Zarahemla Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0978797159
• | ISBN-13: 9780978797157