Word: matthiessen
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...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. An educated North American Indian, who for years has fought a losing fight with the white man's values, goes native again among the South American Indians, and in the green womb of the Amazon finds a spiritual rebirth...
...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. A splendid novel that is a compelling parable of religious rebirth as well as a superior adventure story about a primitive South American tribe and an American soldier of fortune...
...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD by Peter Matthiessen. 373 pages. Random House...
...Peter Matthiessen is an homme engage who is actually engaged in something more strenuous than wagging his tongue. He is a doer who indefatigably does, and a writer who skillfully writes about what he does. In intervals between the composition of three notable short novels, he has pursued a second profession of anthropology in New Guinea and South America, and has written two fine books (Under the Mountain Wall, The Cloud Forest) about his expeditions there. Now at last the scientist and the artist have collaborated to achieve a large and powerful novel that is simultaneously a tale of violent...
...Temperaments. The central fact in Matthiessen's fiction is a tribe of Indians who live in Peru's trans-Andean jungles as they have lived since the morning of the world. They are called the Niaruna, and their pristine condition attracts two men of intense and opposite temperament and tradition...