Description: "They don't come much more saintly, brave, or shockable than Father Michael Stewart, who leaves Scotland to do good (not appreciated) in milk-less, drain-less, God-less Puerto Callado and discovers that ""the president and people of Paraguay have a lot to answer for."" Exploitation of the workers and a pre-teen prostitution ring are the least of it; genocide--a mad American missionary's slaughter and enslavement of the untouched-by-civilization Ache tribe--goes on while authorities look the other way. Soon Father Mike and a trio of reluctant cohorts are bringing off absurd rescue missions and pushing their luck--along with reader credulity--above and beyond. Authenticity may swarm through the landscapes (a convincingly nauseating creep around Asuncion's back streets) and through the rituals of an Ache boy's coming-of-age, but the stagey speechmaking and goodguy-badbuy characterizations cry out for plastic palms. And, for a story with a spiritual tilt, the parade of rape, torture, and decapitation seems a trifle over-exuberant in the telling. Righteous indignation a la Upton Sinclair, but any intended muckraking gets lost in the prosy muck." - Kirkus
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Format: Paperback
Personalize: No
Item Width: 1.5 in
Number of Pages: 438
Unit Type: Unit
Item Length: 4.5 in
Item Height: 7 in
Topic: Religious, Native American & Aboriginal, Political
Book Series: Historical
Vintage: Yes
Era: 1970s
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 1976
Item Weight: 8.9 Oz
Book Title: Green Hill Far Away
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Peter Upton
Original Language: English
Unit Quantity: 1
Narrative Type: Fiction
Literary Movement: Realism
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Inscribed: No
Signed: No
Genre: Non-Classifiable, Fiction, History
Personalized: No
Type: Novel