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Resonating with ancient themes of quest and transformation, The Last Paradise follows Travis Doyle, a Vietnam veteran working as an insurance claims adjuster, from California to Hawaii. Doyle is dispatched to investigate fire damage to outbuildings, equipment, and vehicles at a geothermal drilling site located in volcanic lava fields believed by the local inhabitants to be the home of Pele, the fire goddess.
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The Last Paradise : A Novel Literature of the American West ; V. 2
author
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Houston, James D.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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0806130334
print isbn13
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9780806130330
ebook isbn13
:
9780585194493
language
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English
subject
Insurance adjusters--Fiction, Hawaii--Fiction, Love stories.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
PS3558.O87L37 1998eb
ddc
:
813/.54
subject
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Insurance adjusters--Fiction, Hawaii--Fiction, Love stories.
Literature of the American West William Kittredge, General Editor
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The Last Paradise
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Other Books by James D. Houston
FICTION
Between Battles (New York, 1968)
Gig (New York, 1969)
A Native Son of the Golden West (New York, 1971)
Continental Drift (New York, 1978)
Gasoline (Santa Barbara, 1980)
Love Life (New York, 1985)
NONFICTION
(with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston) Farewell to Manzanar (San Francisco and Boston, 1973)
(with John R. Brodie) Open Field (San Francisco and Boston, 1974)
Three Songs for My Father (Santa Barbara, 1974) Californians: Searching for the Golden State (New York, 1982)
The Men in My Life (Berkeley, 1987)
In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey (San Francisco, 1997)
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The Last Paradise
A Novel
By James D. Houston
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
The Last Paradise is Volume 2 in the Literature of the American West series.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Houston, James D. The last paradise: a novel / by James D. Houston. p. cm. (Literature of the American West; v. 2) ISBN 0-8061-3033-4 (alk. paper) I. Title. II. Series. PS3558.087L37 1998 813'.54dc2197-31878 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1998 by James D. Houston. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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To Jeanne
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On the way to Mecca, many dangers: Thieves, the blowing sand, only camel's milk to drink. Still, each pilgrim kisses the black stone there with pure longing, feeling in the surface the taste of the lips he wants. Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
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WHAT ANGEL HEARD
On the island of Hawai'i usually called the Big Island, the rocky leeward shore is always dry. The windward shore is always wet, lush with ferns and macadamia groves and every variety of orchid. In that kind of moisture cars quickly turn to rust. They gather in the yards and along the roadsides. Rusty cars and orchids and mosquitoes and the best singing in the islandsthese are some of the things you would have Found in Hilo, the main town along the windward shore, on a rain-soaked day in 1952, the year Evangeline was born, the year both of them were born, Evangeline Sakai and Travis Doyle, born in the same week, one in Hilo, one in San Jose.
"That's probably why we met," she will tell him, since in her view nothing happens by coincidence, not even births three thousand miles apart. She could be right. They say everything in the corporeal world affects everything elseearth, air, Fire, waterFrom the engine spark to the ozone layer. What if the inner moments of all our lives could be linked in such a way, a great web to stitch together the ragged histories of the human heart?
The rain beat down on corrugated roofing. The unborn infant squirmed and kicked her tiny, restless kicks. The mother had been told to lie back on a narrow cot in a screened-in sleeping porch to receive the name. It was the grandmother's name, being called, groaned, as if squeezed
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