I well remember that book, At Play in the Fields of the Lord (I always love the title too). It was a favorite of mine when I read it it college (time to reread). I immediately read Mathieson's memoir Snow Leopard, which become another favorite, and then his dreamy Far Tortuga. Love much of his poetry as well. But his later novels, the subject matter, didn't appeal to me and so I've not read them.
It's a great book in the sense that each set of characters has their own interior dilemmas, their own inner struggle and conflict. A true novel in the sense that the action of the novel is only a setting for the moral searchlight within. For anthropology, travel - one writer you might enjoy is Ryzard Kapuscinsky. Polish journalist. Direct, Hemmingwayesque style of writing about off the trodden path places. He's a precious jewel and documentarian of life on this earth.
I well remember that book, At Play in the Fields of the Lord (I always love the title too). It was a favorite of mine when I read it it college (time to reread). I immediately read Mathieson's memoir Snow Leopard, which become another favorite, and then his dreamy Far Tortuga. Love much of his poetry as well. But his later novels, the subject matter, didn't appeal to me and so I've not read them.
It's a great book in the sense that each set of characters has their own interior dilemmas, their own inner struggle and conflict. A true novel in the sense that the action of the novel is only a setting for the moral searchlight within. For anthropology, travel - one writer you might enjoy is Ryzard Kapuscinsky. Polish journalist. Direct, Hemmingwayesque style of writing about off the trodden path places. He's a precious jewel and documentarian of life on this earth.
Thanks for the photos of the people and places of Taiwan. I love the poem.
Thanks. Small book from my hiatus on a mountain in Nicaragua.