TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mittelh olzer, Edgar.
TI  - Shadows move among them
AV  - PZ3.M6977PR9320.9.M5 Sh2
U1  - F 
PY  - 1951///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Lippincott
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Communal living
KW  - Guyana
KW  - Guyanese fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - British Guiana - Fiction
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Also issued online
N2  - Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, "Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play," the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play--such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out--that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication
ER  -