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Fiction & Literature

On Leaving Paradise

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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