The long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth's Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes her characters' travails, a passionate interest of millions of readers, in impeccably researched detail. The continuous recitation of flora and fauna, coupled with flashbacks to events in the previous books, becomes somewhat tiresome, however. (Would that our ``memory'' were as instinctual as that of the Clan.) The saga continues the cross-continental journey of Ayla, her mate Jondalar and their menagerie to his homeland. En route, they encounter a variety of problems, yet manage to find panaceas for each. Their enlightened compilation of skills, inventions, therapies and recipes transforms the voyagers into spirit-like personas providing The Others with constant awe. A brief encounter with the Neanderthal Clan rekindles the unique charm of the first (and strongest) book. Such locutions as ``out of the cooking skin into the coals'' or ``Mother's path of milk'' for the Milky Way are coyly anachronistic. Nonetheless, this volume is as welcome as letters from a long-lost friend. A novel 1.25 million first printing; major ad/promo; first serial to Ladies' Home Journal; BOMC main selection; author tour. (Oct.)
"Pure entertainment at its sublime, wholly exhilarating, best... Auel, a superb raconteur, has crafted a consistently engaging adventure story with a solid historical underpinning." -- "Los Angeles Times"
"Thrilling... This magical book is rich in details of all kinds... but it it the depth of the characters' emotional lives... that gives the novel such a stranglehold." --"Cosmopolitan"
"Gripping." --"Boston Sunday Herald "
YA-- Auel follows the successful formula of the other books in this series--man's emergence from primitivism to civilization. Ayla and Jondalar continue their journey, accompanied by Whinny, Racer, and Wolf, closely observing the terrain and prudently, even inventively, developing ``modern'' techniques to deal with danger and evil. Perhaps most interesting is Ayla's triumph over the matriarchal despot Attaroa; the reverberating echoes of the women's movement's attendant strengths and weaknesses lend a nice touch of irony. The love scenes are not quite as steamy as in the other books. The conclusion is too abrupt, coming just as the characters reach their destination, but The Plains of Passage is still satisfying.-- Joan L. Reynolds, West Potomac High School, Fairfax County, VA
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I found this book from the series to be a great read, i was stuck hour after hour with my head in the book, ayla comes to gripes with alot and meets new people on there jurney, my self personaly if ura fan of jondalar you might not be after reading the hole book, i wont give away secrets that keep you happy reading but wow alot happens to ayla in this one that makes her even more beautiful,
I preferred this book to the last one in this series but that's probably because I skimmed over the majority of the narrative, which went into far too much detail, and focused mostly on the dialogue and the time Ayla and Jondalar spent with other people.
this book is better then the 3rd book mammoth hunters, but none will beat the first two, clan of the cave bear and the valley of horses, however with all the fighting behind them in book 3, beloved Ayla and Jondalar are together again as they leave the safety of the land of the mammoth hunters and embark on an impossible journey to find a new home. On their way, they must survive enemies and embark on many adventures, back to the roots of the series a good story
No where near as good as the first three. I found this one to be quite boring to be frank. Most of it is them travelling to Jondalars home and though its ok its just not 'cant put it down not getting any sleep' material. Jondalar and Ayla do meet some new people along the way though.
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