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In a Town Called Paradox - by Miriam Murcutt & Richard Starks (Paperback)

In a Town Called Paradox - by  Miriam Murcutt & Richard Starks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>In a Town Called Paradox </em></strong>asks the question: <strong>If each of us has a life story, then who determines how it unfolds - and how it should end</strong>?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"I wasn't looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her, even though I knew she was in town filming <em>River of No Return</em></strong>..."</p><p>So begins In A Town Called Paradox</em> - set in Utah, in the 1950s, when the Big Five Hollywood studios</strong> were lured to that state by the fiery red-rock scenery that formed the perfect backdrop to the blockbuster movies they planned to film.</p><p>Corin Dunbar</strong> - 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.</p><p> When Corin falls for Ark Stevenson</strong> - 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</strong>, 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.</p><p>Told mainly by Corin-now a middle-aged woman still haunted by this watershed moment-In A Town Called Paradox </em>is a compelling read</strong> that redefines the meaning of love </strong>as it asks the question: If each of us has a life story, then who decides how it unfolds - and how it should end?</p>

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