6/10/2023 0 Comments Ann patchett book about the amazon![]() ![]() ![]() She promotes non-interventionism and respects the tribe's non-allopathic approach to illness. ![]() But unlike Kurtz, she never loses her moral compass and resists the abuse of power. They are both Western renegades surviving in the jungle and exerting control over its indigenous people. It may be tempting to equate the subject matter with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Dr Swenson with its central character, Kurtz. As far as defiantly childless women go, Patchett has a wonderful creation in Dr Swenson, a seventy-something adventurer-scientist who hurls clever rejoiners at the world's body-clock alarmists: "I've never believed the women of the world are entitled to leave every one of their options open for a lifetime," she says at one point, and at another: "Perhaps instead of trying to reproduce themselves, these postmenopausal women who want to be mothers could adopt up some of the excess that will surely be available."ĭr Swenson is, like so many of Patchett's female protagonists, a deeply moral rebel, part Indiana Jones and part Marie Curie, delivering crisp, Aristotelian gems to her protégé, Marina ("Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find"). ![]()
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