Volume 37, Number 4 · March 15, 1990
The Lost World of the Mormons
By Diane Johnson
The Chinchilla Farm
by Judith Freeman
Norton, 308 pp., $19.95
'Doc': The Rape of the Town of Lovell
by Jack Olsen
Atheneum, 479 pp., $19.95
The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death
by Steven Naifeh, by Gregory White Smith
New American Library, 515 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders
by Linda Sillitoe, by Allen Roberts
Signature Books, 570 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Windows on the Sea and Other Stories
by Linda Sillitoe
Signature Books, 174 pp., $9.95 (paper)
When Verna Flake, the heroine of Judith Freeman's elegaic novel The Chinchilla Farm, regrets the transience of human love, she is mourning not only the infidelity of her husband Leon, who has run off with a beauty queen, but the loss of a world centered on and ordered by the Mormon church. Leon's defection with Pinky was betrayal
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