Steven L. Peck
Winner of AML best literary novel of 2011 and a finalist for the national Montaigne Medal. ,What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970â€™s Moab, Utah? ,The Scholar of Moab,, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the hoary La Sal Mountains.,Young Hyrum Thayne, an unrefined geological surveyor, steals a massive dictionary out of the Grand County library in a midnight raid, startling the good people of Moab into believing a nefarious band of Book of Mormon thugs, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen again. To make matters worse, Hyrumâ€™s illicit affair with Dora Tanner, a local poet thought to be mad, results in the delivery of a bouncing baby boy who vanishes the night of his birth. Righteous Moabites accuse Dora of the murder, but who really killed their child? Did a coyote dingo the baby? Was it an alien abduction as Dora claims? Was it Hyrum? Or could it have been the only witness to the crime, one of a pair of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy in the La Sals on sabbatical?,Take a blazing ride with Hyrum LeRoy Thayne, the Lordâ€™s Chosen Servant and Defender of Moab. His short rich life spans the borderlands of magical realism where geology, ecology philosophy, and consciousness collide, in Steven L. Peckâ€™s rip-snorting tale The Scholar of Moab.
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The Scholar of Moab