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082			_aFic. K26s 1987
100			_aKeene Carolyn
245			_aThe Secret Of The Golden Pavilion
260			_aNew York _bCarolyn Keene
300			_aExtent- vii, 184 pages: _billustrations ; _c20cm
520			_aNancy, Bess, and George travel to Hawaii to help Mr. Sakamaki protect his inherited estate, Kaluakua. Nancy exposes imposters claiming the estate, uncovers a plot by the "Double Scorps" gang to steal a sacred cape, and investigates a "ghost".
650			_ahe protagonist Mizoguchi's obsessive, destructive, and nihilistic search for beauty and meaning in a post-war, fragmented world.
650			_a explores a deeply fractured moral life, centering on themes of obsessive beauty, nihilism, hypocrisy, and the destruction of innocence. The novel, based on the 1950 arson of Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji by a young monk, Mizoguchi, portrays a protagonist who is isolated, physically frail, and deeply disturbed by the stark contrast between the ideal, eternal beauty of the temple and the ugliness of the mundane world.
700			_aCarolyn Keene
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