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"I wasn't looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her, even though I knew she was in town filming River of No Return..."
So begins In A Town Called Paradox - set in Utah, in the 1950s, when the Big Five Hollywood studios were lured to that state by the fiery red-rock scenery that formed the perfect backdrop to the blockbuster movies they planned to film.
Corin Dunbar - banished to live with her aunt Jessie, an obsessively religious spinster who runs a failing cattle ranch near Paradox - hates her new life, until the arrival of Hollywood turns the rural backwater into a playground for glamorous stars. Seduced by the glitz of the movies, Corin finds work with the studios, but after a brush with the casting couch, channels her growing ambition into saving the ranch-the jewel of the Dunbar family for three generations.
When Corin falls for Ark Stevenson - a charismatic stranger who was raised by missionaries in the Amazon jungle (then drawn to Paradox by his fascination with the Westerns that are filmed there) - her future seems bright. That's not the outlook facing Yiska Begay, a Navajo Indian and convicted murderer who's on the run near Paradox. These different lives unexpectedly collide when a tragic accident wrecks Corin's dreams and forces her to make an agonizing decision that changes the course of her life forever.
Told mainly by Corin-now a middle-aged woman still haunted by this watershed moment-In A Town Called Paradox is a compelling read that redefines the meaning of love as it asks the question: If each of us has a life story, then who decides how it unfolds - and how it should end?
Author: Miriam Murcutt, Richard Starks
Publisher: Prestwicke Publishing
Published: 10/19/2020
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780974694603
ISBN10: 0974694606
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Women
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