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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)

At Play in the Fields of the Lord Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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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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Title	:	At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Author	:	Peter Matthiessen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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

The 1991 film, memorable but sadly overlooked, and a pretty successful adaptation with a well-chosen cast, still can't touch the mastery of this novel. In fact, this is almost a textbook case of novel vs film as media. The film can give you the images (and it does, gorgeously) and it can add real-time depth to conversations and underscore certain scenes with the use of music and pacing (again, the film uses music reasonably well). What it cannot do, however, is give you the in-built

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.

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

In the Heart of a Different DarknessMy only previous encounter with the late Peter Matthiessen was his final novel, In Paradise, which impressed me immensely. So I went back almost fifty years to this novel of 1965, and was thrilled to see many of the same themes, yet treated in a strikingly different way. The protagonist of In Paradise attends a conference on the site of Auschwitz; a Gentile among Jews, he is joined by those of other faiths and some of no faith at all, none of which emerges

For me, lots of books start out strongly and then fizzle out towards the end. This one, though, felt almost the opposite. It started out slowly, and I was dubious that I was going to like it, but it seemed to pick up strength as it went along, and by the time I finished, I loved it.The subject matter is one that really fascinates me: isolated indigenous tribes. This particular one is in some unspecified place in South America. Probably Bolivia. The setting actually feels more like Brazil, but

I never was able to shake the feeling that there was something missing in this novel. Maybe it was a soul or heart that it lacked? Hard to say because it was, at times, quite beautiful, and the ending was very well done, but I felt empty after I was done with the book.One of the biggest problems I had with the book was that the characters felt very thin. Even Moon, who was written as a 'complicated man' never jumped off of the page and no amount of discussion between Wolf and Andy at the end