Journey to Nowhere
A Nonfiction, Religion, History book. Interesting account of Jim Jones' People's Temple. Pretty fast read.
Rarely does a book come along which so transcends its apparent subject that the reader is ultimately given something larger, richer, and more revealing than he might initially have imagined. Already published in England to overwhelming acclaim, Shiva Naipaul's Journey to Nowhere is such a book – a “powerful, lucid, and beautifully written book” (The Spectator) that is destined to be one of the most controversial works of 1981.In it, this major writer takes us beyond the events and surface details surrounding the tragedy of Jonestown and the People's Temple – and gives us his remarkable, unique perspective on the deadly drama of ideas, environments, and unholy alliances that shaped those events both in Guyana and, even more significantly, in America.Journey to Nowhere is, on one level, a “brilliantly edgy safari”...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780671424718 / 671424718
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Interesting account of Jim Jones' People's Temple. Pretty fast read. I'm honestly only likely to read at most one book about Jonestown, but this one was recommended by a very smart guy. A very poetic journal, plenty of sarcasm and acuity in the late Shiva's notes on the trends which fed and enabled the massacre
