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010 $a2013027873
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020 $a9780062277329 (hbk.) :$cNT$910$
020 $a0062277324 (hbk.)
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050 00$aPR9320.9.D34$bC48 2014
082 04$a813.54
100 1 $aD'Aguiar, Fred,$d1960-
245 10$aChildren of paradise :$ba novel /$cFred D'Aguiar
250 $aFirst edition
260 $aNew York :$bHarper,$c2014
300 $a363 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Based on the terrible truths of Jonestown, Jim Jones's utopian commune in Guyana, Children of Paradise is a beautifully imagined novel that interweaves history and fiction to portray a mother and daughter's escape from therule of a religious madman. Joyce and her young daughter, Trina, have followed a charismatic preacher from California to the wilds of Guyana, where a thousand congregants have cleared a swath of dense jungle and builta utopian society based on a rigid order guarded over by armed men and teenage "prefects." Each day ends with sermons that demonstrate the preacher's capricious violence and his utmost hostility toward even a whisper ofskepticism. But try as the preacher may to block out the world, the commune's seclusion is being breached, first bytribal elders complaining of polluted river water downstream, then by an invisible presence that has helped a young boy to disappear, and finally with rumors of the imminent arrival of a congressional delegation on a fact-finding mission. As the camp begins rehearsing an endgame of mass suicide, Joyce and Trina attempt a daring escape, aided by a local boat captain and the most unlikely of prisoners--the extraordinary Adam, the commune's caged gorilla" --$cfrom publisher's web site
650 0$aCults$zGuyana$vFiction
650 0$aCommunal living$zGuyana$vFiction
650 0$aCaptive wild animals$vFiction