by Jon Krakauer · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781400032808
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In this fascinating and chilling account by Jon Krakauer, author of 'Into the Wild' and 'Into Thin Air,' we delve into the isolated fundamentalist Mormon communities of the United States. Krakauer explores the history and beliefs of these groups, focusing on the case of brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who claimed to have received a divine order to murder a woman and her daughter. Through meticulous investigation, the author constructs a chilling narrative about messianic madness, polygamy, and violence, raising disturbing questions about the nature of religious faith. A deep and disturbing analysis of the extremes of religious fundamentalism in America.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
