What caught my attention first was the introductory statement opening the book amok began as a noun, and it captured my attention right away. Explore the programme of louisianas international literature festival taking place this year. A penny for your thoughts my love a penny for your thoughts my love a swinging door a swinging door a penny for your thoughts they try to jump me they try to jump me. In some neighborhoods of this placid new jersey borough in bergen county, they are seemingly everywhere waddling by the dozen in. Amok journal sensurround edition by stuart swezey, october 1995, amok books edition, paperback in english sensurround ed edition. A detective crime novel set in thailand featuring jimm juree, colin cotterills fictional detective. It deals with an extreme obsession, which leads the protagonist to sacrifice his. A doctor in the dutch east indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions. It has everything in it, over brimming with tension, passion, morbid infatuation, colonialism, existential crisis and what not.
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