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    At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    Audiobook16 hours

    At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    Written by Peter Matthiessen

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    About this audiobook

    The timely story of how the forces of change converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. In addition to being a prophetic commentary on emerging threats to the environment, and the troublesome encroachment of the modern world on traditional cultures, the novel is a suspenseful adventure story about two men striving to find meaning in a world not their own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 11, 2011
    ISBN9781456123833
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    Author

    Peter Matthiessen

    Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) was a winner of the National Book Award and the American Book Award, and was the author of over thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Snow Leopard (1978), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Far Tortuga (1975), In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1992), and Bone by Bone (1999). Chavez's longtime spokesman and personal aide Marc Grossman is Communications Director for the Cesar Chavez Foundation.  

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      Book describes truth among many different lies used to control people, and gain their organization into dominant people’s preferred mastery of them. Writing is skilled and that in itself is reason enough to read it. Premise is hopelessness on one hand, and transcendental on the other.