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Title: At Play in the Fields of the Lord by PETER MATTHIESSEN ISBN: 0-679-73741-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ¡Madre de Dios!
Comment: I've always been a bit of an escapist, so this book was perfect for me. Peter Mattiessen is actually a travel writer, well qualified to describe the South American rain forest setting. What surprises is how well he conveys the brutal reality of what might befall us, should we find ourselves sitting at a rickety wooden table at La Concepción Taverna at the end of a mud street in the jungle.
You will find yourself in the strangest company. It's hard to tell the savages from the decent white folk. The Missionary's wife appears to be losing her mind. The natives are restless. The mercenaries passing through town. You are about to meet Lewis Moon and, for some reason, you will not be able to look away.
This is a disturbing book, no-one is spared, not even the reader.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing book
Comment: A tense and violent story of the relations between an American missionary family and Amazonian Indians in Peru. A classical tale of colonialism, the story is riveting, even though a few of the characters (especially the missionaries seem prescribed. The reader turns and twists throughout the book and is continually surprised, yet the story progression remains clear.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mesmerizing
Comment: In Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Lewis Moon, the mysterious and elusive mercenary with a good heart, steals every scene in which he appears. The story, in a nutshell, concerns the clash between 4 forces in a remote South American jungle reason: misguided Christian missionaries, corrupt local politicians, the near Stone Age jungle natives, and Lewis Moon. Beautiful progress of a story in which it's hard at any moment to know who to root for, a story in which no one really comes out a winner, and therein lies the moral.
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Title: The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen, Edward Hoagland ISBN: 0140255087 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Far Tortuga : A Novel by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0394756673 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Tree Where Man Was Born (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0140239340 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0140255079 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:At Play in the Fields of the Lord ASIN: 6302359848 Publisher: Universal Studios Pub. Date: 05 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.98 |
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