From the author of the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams
comes a masterful work of fiction, a collection of stories that
balances the marvelous and the real, intellect and heart, with
extraordinary grace.
Set variously in Peru, Chine, the Caribbean, California, and the
American West, here are tales of men and women exploring the
landscapes of their own innocence and desire; confronting violence,
estrangement, and the disillusionment of war; or encountering the
hope, fierce integrity, defiance, and wisdom of others. A packet of
recently discovered seventeenth-century Peruvian love letters
presents a twentieth-century man with the paralyzing choice of
either protecting or exposing their stunning secret. A man's
encounter with a young deaf girl ("eerie in her stillness and
independence") rearranges his notions of pity. When some young boys
on the lookout for easy money get caught with a truckload of stolen
horses, their fates raise questions of justice and redemption. For
a group of convicts, a gathering of birds in the prison yard may be
the key to transcendence, both figurative and literal. Here are
saints who shouldn't touch, but do; sinners who insist on the life
of the spirit; a postcard paradise that turns into a nightmare.
With "Light Action in the Caribbean," Barry Lopez, whose fiction
has been hailed as "haunting... mysterious" (Time) and
"superb...exquisitely wrought" (SF Chronicle), carries his central
concerns -- place, compassion, memory, the quest of the traveler --
to exciting new frontiers, both geographic and emotional.
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