Subjects
Read the At Play in the Fields of the Lord movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on Movies.com. The most striking image in Peter Matthiessen’s novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord describes an Amazonian Indian, standing in the center of a forest clearing, defiantly raising his bow and arrow against an airplane that flies between himself and the sun. The image has been used as the logo for the new film of the novel, but actually two planes cast their shadows on these Indians.
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 the 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.
Publication Details
- Publisher:
- Blackstone Publishing
- Imprint:
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC
- Edition:
- Unabridged
- Publication Date:
- 2009
Format
- OverDrive MP3 Audiobook 396.7 MB
- OverDrive Listen 396.1 MB
Peter Matthiessen (Author)
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Snow Leopard. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974. He was cofounder of the Paris Review and won two ...