Download e-book for kindle: The Scholar of Moab by Steven L. Peck

What occurs whilst a two-headed cowboy, a highschool dropout, and a poet kidnapped via extraterrestrial beings come jointly in 1970’s Moab, Utah? The student of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating homicide, affairs, and cowboy mysteries within the shadow of the hoary los angeles Sal Mountains.

Young Hyrum Thayne, an unrefined geological surveyor, steals a major dictionary out of the Grand County library in a nighttime raid, startling the great humans of Moab into believing a nefarious band of booklet of Mormon thugs, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen back. To make concerns worse, Hyrum’s illicit affair with Dora Tanner, an area poet considered mad, ends up in the supply of a bouncing child boy who vanishes the evening of his start. Righteous Moabites accuse Dora of the homicide, yet who fairly killed their baby? Did a coyote dingo the child? was once it an alien abduction as Dora claims? was once it Hyrum? Or might it were the single witness to the crime, certainly one of a couple of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy within the los angeles Sals on sabbatical?

Take a blazing journey with Hyrum LeRoy Thayne, the Lord’s selected Servant and Defender of Moab. His brief wealthy existence spans the borderlands of magical realism the place geology, ecology philosophy, and awareness collide, in Steven L. Peck’s rip-snorting story the coed of Moab.

Steven L. Peck is familiar with Moab, within out. An evolutionary ecologist at Brigham younger college, Peck teaches the philosophy of biology. His medical paintings has seemed in American Naturalist, Newsweek, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Biological Theory, Agriculture and Human Values, Biology & Philosophy. Steven additionally co-edited a quantity on environmental stewardship. His inventive works contain a singular, The present of the King's Jeweler (2003 Covenant Communications). His poetry has seemed in Dialogue, Bellowing Ark, Irreantum, Red Rock Review and different magazines. Peck was once nominated for the 2011 technology Fiction Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award. different awards comprise the Meyhew brief tale Contest, First position at Warp and Weave, Honorable point out within the 2011 Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest, and moment position within the Eugene England Memorial Essay Contest.

The student of Moab was once award the simplest novel of 2011 through the organization of Mormon Letters, and used to be chosen as a finalist for the Montaigne Medal (a nationwide award for the main thought-provoking books being thought of for the Eric Hoffer Award).