The Backslider Author:Levi S. Peterson Frank Windham is just a Mormon cowboy ? hard-working, trying to be honest, convinced he is going to hell for incurable lust, and convinced that he deserves to. He has an ultra-pious mother, a brother who is more than just a little touched in the head, and a comfortable Lutheran girl friend who knows she has been saved. This is a novel about sin ... more »and salvation, written with raunchiness and reverence. It is also an extraordinary landmark in Mormon fiction ? the first to consider the tension between guilt and sexual frustration.« less