Papa Married a Mormon
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1955. First Edition. 298pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 brown buckram over tan boards. Very good/Very good. Corners of jacket nicked with some small losses. Item #10265
First novel by John Dennis Fitzgerald (1907-1988) who was born in Price, Utah, to a Scandinavian Mormon mother and an Irish Catholic father, he grew up influenced by both cultures. He left Utah behind at age eighteen, working at such varied jobs as playing in a jazz band, working in a bank, and serving as an overseas newspaper correspondent. At the time of this book's publication, he worked for a steel company in California. This work is a fictionalized memoir of the author's youth in eastern Utah. The work was a bestseller and was the beginning of a successful writing career, that included the 'Great Brain' series.
"This is a true story of the old Utah frontier when Mormons and miners were struggling to forge a new life. It's the story of a boom town with its bad men and some not so bad, of Evangelists, gamblers, gunmen and Indians. And its the heartwarming story of the venturesome Fitzgerald family, where Catholic, Mormon and Methodist were lovingly united by the belief 'that all religions are but windows of the same church." - from the jacket.
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