A Goat for Azazel: A Novel of Christian Origins

by Vardis Fisher

Overview

LUST AND REDEMPTION, SIN AND SALVATION—THE EPIC NOVEL OF A YOUNG ROMAN IN THE FLESHPOTS OF AN ANCIENT WORLD.

HE SAW HIS MOTHER BURNED AT THE STAKE

This soul-searching experience changed an innocent young Roman into a pleasure-seeking hedonist lusting for flesh. Yet, there was something about the new religion that obsessed him. What was it that made Christian martyrs go to their deaths with a smile on their lips?...

Christ had preached love; only through love could man be re-born. So it was that Damon set out in search of the answers to puzzling riddles about love and lust, the spirit and the flesh, barbarian pantheism and gentle Christianity…

The latest in Vardis Fisher’s TESTAMENT OF MAN series. ‘The most ambitious project in present-day fiction!’—The New York Herald Tribune

DAMON SOUGHT LOVE

—from Levilla, the beautiful young Christian, who withheld her ripe body from him;

—from Murdia, the sensualist, who knew how to arouse men with passionate abandon;

—from Ayla, the voluptuous dancing girl, whose cloying movements invited a strange relationship;

—from the father he never knew; from the religion he yearned to believe in...

Here is the fascinating odyssey of a young Roman who sated himself in the dissolute world of the First Century...until he finally found the goal of his quest for love in a new and sublime experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787209695
Publisher:	Papamoa Press
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	361
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 - July 9, 1968) was an American writer best known for his popular historical novels of the Old West. He also wrote the monumental 12-volume Testament of Man (1943-1960) series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cave to civilization.

Born in Annis, Idaho, near present-day Rigby, of a Mormon family and descent, he graduated from the University of Utah in 1920. He earned a Master of Arts degree (1922) and a Ph.D. (1925) at the University of Chicago.

He was an assistant professor of English at the University of Utah (1925-1928) and New York University (1928-1931). He taught as a summer professor at Montana State University (1932-1933) in Bozeman.

Between 1935-1939 he worked as the director of the Idaho Writer’s Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He wrote several books about Idaho. He was also a newspaper columnist for the Idaho Statesman and Idaho Statewide (which later became the Intermountain Observer).

In order to write his Testament of Man (1943-1960) series, he read more than 2,000 books on anthropology, history, psychology, theology and comparative religion. His other works include the historical novel, Children of God, tracing the history of the Mormons, which won the 1939 Harper Prize in Fiction; the novel Mountain Man (1965), which was adapted for Sydney Pollack’s film, Jeremiah Johnson (1972); The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage (1943), which tells the story of the Donner Party tragedy; and Tale of Valor (1960), a novel recounting the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He also wrote a non-fiction book on how to write fiction books called God or Caesar? (1953).

Fisher was married three times and died in 1968, at the age of 73, in Hagerman, Idaho.