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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 2711 Users | 249 Reviews

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Title	:	At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Author	:	Peter Matthiessen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	December 3rd 1991 by Vintage (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literature. Religion

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In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the fearful and elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on behalf of the local comandante.Out of their struggle Peter Matthiessen has created an electrifying moral thriller, a novel of Conradian richness that explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.

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Original Title:	At Play in the Fields of the Lord
ISBN:	0679737413 (ISBN13: 9780679737414)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1966)

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I must admit that I'm still digesting this book. It was little hard to get into, as events would take place for certain characters and then again from another perspective without the clearest of indications that this was happening. Once I did get into it however, it really became a fascinating book. Though there have been many, many stories about missionaries trying to convert "savage" peoples to Christianity, from The African Queen to The Poisonwood Bible, At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a

I read this book twice, in 1989 in Africa and in 1996 in Brazil, then I spent five years among the Yanomami Indians and was able to experience many of the things described in the story. I recently listened to the audiobook version and found it moving, fascinating and thought-provoking. Anthony Heald does a great job with voices and accents, speaks the Spanish parts well and does a good job rendering the Niaruna language. As a story, it is brilliantly told; Matthiessen's prose is vivid and his

Author Peter Matthessen is a naturalist and documentary filmmaker. At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a novel set in the Amazon. The same year he wrote the novel he also worked on the famous but somewhat controversial documentary Dead Birds.At Play in the Fields of the Lord is another take on Heart of Darkness. A mercinary and a family of missionaries both come to a remote village for polar oppsoite reasons leaving the villagers in a tug of war. As with Conrad's tale, fantasticism ultimately



This is the first of Peter Matthiessen's fiction books I have read, having read a couple of his non-fiction books and enjoyed them.I wasn't sure whether I would like this - but Matthiessen's characters, so flawed and so realistic, in the setting of the jungles of the Amazon amongst savage native Indians - fantastic stuff.The infantile feuding between Protestant and Catholic missionaries, all either corrupt, fooling themselves, blinded to their own ambition, or miserable in themselves. A couple

There are a lot of classic Mathiessen strengths in this novel: marvellous clarity and evocative power of portrayal of landscapes and animals; searingly honest vision of human frailties and social and religious hypocrisy; unpretentious and insightful meditations on the big moral issues, the co-existence of appalling suffering, awe inspiring beauty and a kind of ever elusive but crucial grace in the scheme of things. But there is some terribly clunky dialogue, none of the characters are close to

A disturbing and compelling tale of multiple people in the South American jungle and their attempts, at best, to influence, and at worst, to destroy, an indigenous culture. The jungle itself plays a powerful figure in the lives of all the characters, as they struggle with their own issues. A very dark commentary on the roles of missionaries and mercenaries.