Book Overview
Light years separate Thomas's intelligent, literate fiction from most other novels set in prehistoric times. Exuding authenticity and distinguished by resonant language, this novel, a companion to... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0671733230
ISBN13:9780671733230
Release Date:July 1991
Publisher:Pocket Books
Length:316 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 4.1" x 6.7"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Excellent
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Thomas can write a book that is totally plausible. Harsh, unromantic, and heads above the rest of this genre. If you want a prehisoric love romance, don't bother. If you care about good writing, read on.
Excellent 'follow-up' to Reindeer Moon
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Writing a sequel to Reindeer Moon could certainly not be an easy task, but Animal Wife does an astonishingly good job. In Reindeer Moon we were staggered by this author's excellent descriptive prose relating nature's unsympathetic brutality to those humans of prehistory. Animal wife takes it even further, recounting man's brutality to one another. While told from a male perspective as opposed to Reindeer's female perspective, the mood is less forbidding and leans more towards the self-confidence that a future leader needs to have despite the unimaginable adversity. Once again the author's characters were markedly developed and anything but primitive with their complex social structure, complete with infighting, bickering and backstabbing. The only downside of this novel is that we readers are left with the anguish of this being the author's last work of prehistory fiction.
Not much different than Reindeer Moon, but a well told tale
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
These two books could have been one book really, they are very much alike. Instead of the girl Yanan telling her story we have the boy Kori, son of the shaman Swift from "Reindeer". A good summer read, well worth it.
Above average original work
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a well written and entertaining book (though perhaps not as interesting as the author's other prehistoric novel, Reindeer Moon. It's quite different from some other more popular novels set in early human history, in part because Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is better able than other authors to get inside the heads of people very different from ourselves. It's not great literature, but it is certainly an interesting, engaging book.
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