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Chosen Path: A Memoir
by Quinn, D. Michael
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1560854510
- ISBN 13
- 9781560854517
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 571pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Blue boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and cover. "After D. Michael Quinn's death in April 2021, his children found his remarkable, unpublished memoir in his home and entrusted Signature Books with its publication. Relying on his journals, primary research, and reminiscences, Quinn shares his life story as few have heard it-from his father's hiding of his true name and Mexican identity, to his upbringing by his abusive grandmother, to his choice to closet his homosexuality, to his undying commitment to his faith and its history.
From the age of nine, Quinn felt convicted he would one day serve as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He chose the path he believed would take him there, eventually living as a straight LDS family man in a mixed-orientation marriage. In the 1970s and 1980s he became a BYU professor and one of Mormonism's most promising, prolific, and respected historians. But his uncompromising commitment to total honesty about his religion's history, along with his homosexuality, set him on a collision course with church leaders and the end of his seemingly idyllic Mormon life. Throughout his telling, Quinn unflinchingly opens up about his feelings and experiences that shaped his enigmatic life.
From the age of nine, Quinn felt convicted he would one day serve as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He chose the path he believed would take him there, eventually living as a straight LDS family man in a mixed-orientation marriage. In the 1970s and 1980s he became a BYU professor and one of Mormonism's most promising, prolific, and respected historians. But his uncompromising commitment to total honesty about his religion's history, along with his homosexuality, set him on a collision course with church leaders and the end of his seemingly idyllic Mormon life. Throughout his telling, Quinn unflinchingly opens up about his feelings and experiences that shaped his enigmatic life.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65905
- Title
- Chosen Path: A Memoir
- Author
- Quinn, D. Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1560854510
- ISBN 13
- 9781560854517
- Publisher
- Signature Books
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- biography; history; queer studies; religion; rwsummer2024
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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