The Contraption

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Great Whale Books, 2024

0978581725 / 9780978581725

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The Contraption is a novel that deals with the challenges faced by Audrey Crane, a woman who has been recruited into a dangerous, coercive religious cult. She had been weeks away from her wedding at the time. Her fiancé, Matthias Pleasant, is left in the dark, not even knowing where she is. Her name has been changed, and she has been relocated to another state. The cult, Church of the Mountain of Radiance, is an all-controlling psychological prison. Audrey was lured in initially through the deceptive tactics, self-hypnosis and guided imagery rituals brought to her by a team of recruiters. One step leads to another, as her mind becomes totally occupied by the propaganda, bizarre rituals, arcane rules, and thought-stopping practices of the group. A new personality emerges, an artificial "cult self" to go with her new name. Matthias launches a struggling effort to find her, aided by certain family members and some cult researchers they meet along the way. Matt leads the search, and says he "just wants to talk to her." But his great hope is to snap her out of whatever this is, and resume the life they had before this most abrupt, heart-rending separation. The author, Barton A. Stewart is a long time student of the cult phenomenon, and The Contraption will be among the most realistic fictional depictions of the kinds of things that can happen in cases like this. Avoiding the sensationalism of so many novels, Stewart offers a look into another world, which unfortunately exists in the real world. First and foremost, this is a story of lovers separated in the cruelest of ways, and the all-out effort to restore that love. The title comes from a cult researcher's analogy of mind control as a "faulty, buggy, manmade machine, inserted by deception into a healthy psyche." Mind control is the ultimate pitfall. And mind control is - The Contraption.…

Titolo
The Contraption
Autore
Barton Allen Stewart
Editore
Great Whale Books
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0978581725
ISBN 13
9780978581725

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Venditore AbeBooks dal 23 marzo 2026

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