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On Leaving Paradise

Name: On Leaving Paradise
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ISBN: 9780151699216

A Novel

by Frank Hercules · 1980 edition

An elegant satirical fable following Johnny de Paria and his entourage as they flee Trinidad by ocean liner for England — docking at Madeira, where a richly comic set piece unfolds among the island’s society.

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Author: Frank Hercules
Edition year: 1980
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780151699216

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