Island a novel
For 120 years, an ideal society has flourished on a Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala a...
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Harper Perennial,
2009.
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| 020 | |a 9780061561795 |c $14.99 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Huxley, Aldous, |d 1894-1963. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Island : |b a novel / |c Aldous Huxley. |
| 260 | |a NY: |b Harper Perennial, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a 354 p. | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a For 120 years, an ideal society has flourished on a Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and give him hope. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Utopias |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | 0 | |a Journalists |v Fiction. |
| 651 | 0 | |a Oceania |v Fiction. | |
| 949 | |a schlow |b SAPAB |c Huxley |d i |e 39635103590473 |f 603420 |g locNI |j 08/04/2016 | ||
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