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Item Details
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JONESTOWN
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By: |
Wilson Harris |
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Paperback |
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£13.00 |
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£11.70 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571283659 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571283651 |
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Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
17 November, 2011 |
Pages: |
244 |
Description: |
A fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978. |
Synopsis: |
'I was obsessed - let me confess - by cities and settlements in the Central and South Americas that are an enigma to many scholars. I dreamt of their abandonment, their bird-masks, their animal-masks...Did their inhabitants rebel against the priests, did obscure holocausts occur, civil strife, famine, plague? Was Jonestown the latest manifestation...?' "Jonestown" (1996), one of Wilson Harris' most acclaimed creations, is a fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978. The novel's narrator, Francisco Bone, has survived the suicide albeit in a traumatized condition. By way of a dream-book he tries to heal his psychic wound, under the influence of the Mayan concept of time that twins past and future. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books. For a full list of available titles visit our associated website. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog. |
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UK |
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Faber & Faber |
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