From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #38 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Saturday, May 13 2000 Volume 01 : Number 038 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:24:46 -0400 From: "Eric D. Dixon" Subject: Re: [AML] Favorite Characters in LDS Fiction Betch Hatch wrote: >The main character in Margaret Young's _Salvador_. (I don't own this >one--though I'd like to--and I don't remember her name.) For those still looking for a copy, you can find a couple at www.bookfinder.com, for $10 each. Eric D. Dixon "The attitude that life owes us something, if not everything, encourages life to thwart our endeavours. This life may not provide justice, but it is fairer than we might like it to be. When we act as we like, we get what we want; but not what we need." -- Robert Fripp - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:16:48 -0600 From: Thom Duncan Subject: Re: [AML] Lament for Lost Generation "R.W. Rasband" wrote: > > Taylor was ambitious, as were many of the "lost generation", inspired by the > modernist examples of Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Maybe one reason > Mormon writers haven't reached a large national audience is that the > audience for serious literature has dried up. Another reason may be the colorful lives these literary gods lived as opposed to the comparatively bland lifestyle of LDS writers. You have to admit, Papa Hemingway was a living novel in his own right. Thom - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #38 *****************************