Reindeer Moon

By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Book Overview

This novel talks about the ice-age, where a handful of human creations struggle to stay alive, and it is the power and wonder of this story that their struggle is our own. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671727788
• ISBN13: 9780671727789
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

And you thought your life was stressful...

This is perhaps the best novel I have ever read in the prehistory genre, BAR NONE. The story telling is realistic to the point that this could easily have been a real-life account, with possible exception given to the supernatural elements. All of the characters are well developed and above all, easy to read emotionally. The story is essentially about people living their daily lives, but the author excels in imparting how stressful and brutal that life may have actually been in an ice-age culture and I found myself completely absorbed and unable put it down because of its intensity. I'm looking forward to reading its companion book "The Animal Wife".

Reindeer Moon

An excellent book with strong research in all areas, from natural history to shamanism. Vividly described and "real"; told in a spare, effective voice. An especially good portrayal of an adolescent character. Far superior to any of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" books.

Stupendous, experientially and intellectually delicious

Simply one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Easily the best invocation of what life may well have been like for our hunting and gathering ancestors, and a stupendous illustration of animistic modes of experience, and of the reciprocity between human beings and the living land. Brilliant insights into the sensorial worlds of other animals -- wolves, mammoths, and others -- as well as into mysteriously beautiful styles of thought and awareness still common among many indigenous, oral peoples. An anthropological and deeply ecological classic -- and yet its a novel! Its not forthose who like their nature sentimental and sweet, but if you care about the wild otherness so rapidly dissappearing from our world, don't miss this astonishing book.

Exceptional portrayal of another world view!

This book is so much more sophisticated than Clan of the Cave Bear, that it shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath! OK, OK, maybe I am a rabid fan, but I think I became one with good reason. If you are interested in other cultures and want to understand how someone very different from yourself might think, this is the book for you. Ms. Thomas' other books also put you into another world, another mind, whether she writes about humans, as in Animal Wife, or about animals, as in Tribe of Tiger and The Hidden Life of Dogs. Her command of English and her talent for eloquent understatement are wonderful to experience. If you are discerning and literate, you will adore her.