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1 online resource (363 pages) |
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text file rda |
| Summary |
Based on the terrible truths of Jonestown, Jim Jones's utopian commune in Guyana, Children of Paradise is a beautifully imagined novel that interweaves history and fiction to portray a mother and daughter's escape from the rule of a religious madman. Joyce and her young daughter, Trina, have followed a charismatic preacher from California to the wilds of Guyana, where a thousand congregants have cleared a swath of dense jungle and built a utopian society based on a rigid order guarded over by armed men and teenage "prefects." Each day ends with sermons that demonstrate the preacher's capricious violence and his utmost hostility toward even a whisper of skepticism. But try as the preacher may to block out the world, the commune's seclusion is being breached, first by tribal elders complaining of polluted river water downstream, then by an invisible presence that has helped a young boy to disappear, and finally with rumors of the imminent arrival of a ... |
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After following a charismatic preacher to the jungles of Guyana, Joyce and her daughter, Trina, are desperate to break free of the commune before the mass suicide and attempt to escape with the help of a boat captain and a gorilla. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Cults -- Guyana -- Fiction.
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Communal living -- Guyana -- Fiction.
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Captive wild animals -- Fiction.
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Captive wild animals. |
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Communal living. |
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Cults. |
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Guyana. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960- Children of paradise New York, NY : Harper, 2014 9780062277329 (DLC) 2013027873 (OCoLC)854956923 |
| ISBN |
9780062277343 : $15.99 |
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0062277340 : $15.99 |
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