Hunters and Gatherers
By Francine Prose
(Picador, Paperback, 9780312422837, 256pp.)
Publication Date: September 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Paperback
Categories: General
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Reeling from the shock of a failed romance, Martha, a fact checker at a chic fashion magazine, falls in with a group of New Age feminist goddess worshipers. She follows the group and their accident-prone leader, Isis Moonwagon, from the upscale beaches of Fire Island to the inhospitable Arizona desert, where a Native-American healer bullies them through the punitive rituals of the sweat lodge and the vision quest. But as petty tensions and major crises escalate out of control, the women’s longing to return to the "caring nurturant" ways of primitive hunters and gatherers shatters under the pressures of a more predatory reality.
Francine Prose is the author of numerous highly acclaimed works of fiction, including Household Saints, Primitive People, and Blue Angel. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and The Paris Review. She is a contributing editor at Harper's, and she writes regularly on art for The Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City.
"Exquisitely written...Prose has a remarkable eye." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Prose's satiric vision could not be more sharply focused here, and her powers of observation and deadpan humor never falter." --The Miami Herald
"Dead-on. . .remarkably perceptive about the pretensions and the anomalies of modern people." --The New Republic
"Prose is sharp with dialogue and detail; her satire is cutting but never cruel." --People
"Acid satire. . .from a writer with a perfect ear for the rhetoric of contemporary self-deception." --The New York Observer
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