At Play in the Fields of the Lord

By Peter Matthiessen

Book Overview

In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the 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 this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller--adapted into a movie starring John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Tom Waits. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679737413
• ISBN13: 9780679737414
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"