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Laura Elizabeth Woollett

    Laura Elizabeth Woollett se sumerge en los aspectos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana y las relaciones, explorando la atracción del mal y su impacto en aquellos que se ven arrastrados a su órbita. Sus colecciones de cuentos y novelas a menudo examinan las vidas de personajes entrelazados con figuras infames o radicales. Woollett ofrece una mirada penetrante a las motivaciones y consecuencias que dan forma a los destinos de sus personajes. Su escritura es conocida por su intensidad y su capacidad para representar escenarios inquietantes con una precisión escalofriante.

    Beautiful Revolutionary
    • Beautiful Revolutionary

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      The thrilling new novel, inspired by the events at Jonestown in the 1970s. It's the summer of 1968, and Evelyn Lynden is a woman at war with herself. Minister's daughter. Atheist. Independent woman. Frustrated wife. Bitch with a bleeding heart. Following her conscientious-objector husband Lenny to the rural Eden of Evergreen Valley, California, Evelyn wants to be happy with their new life. Yet she finds herself disillusioned with Lenny's passive ways -- and anxious for a saviour. Enter the Reverend Jim Jones, the dynamic leader of a new revolutionary church ... Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Beautiful Revolutionaryexplores the allure of the real-life charismatic leader who would destroy so many. It follows Evelyn as she is pulled into Jones's orbit -- an orbit it would prove impossible for her to leave.

      Beautiful Revolutionary2019
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