MARLO MORGAN ~ MUTANT MESSAGE
DOWN UNDER
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Marlo Morgan is a retired health-care professional. She lives in Lee Summit, Missouri. A Marlo Morgan book "Mutant Message Down Under" was a New York Times bestseller for thirty-one weeks and was published in twenty-four countries.
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Mutant Message Down Under Mutant Message was initially self-published by Marlo Morgan in 1990. Following its success, the book was taken up by Harper Collins who published it in 1994 as a work of fiction. From Publishers Weekly Marlo Morgan's much-hyped first novel, a fictionalized account of a "walkabout" she took in the Outback with a group of Aborigines, gains from the use of authentic detail, although the storytelling is hindered by the author's heavy New Age agenda and incessant cultural proselytizing. A 50-ish alternative health practitioner |
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| from the American Midwest, Marlo Morgan was working with underprivileged Aborigine youths in the inner cities of Australia when a group of Aborigines offered her a chance to learn firsthand about their culture. Marlo Morgan's account of the tribe's customs, healing methods, food-finding tactics, etc. is absorbing, and her willingness to forgo Western luxuries and to relish the experience is courageous and touching. Less compellingly, the author claims that she was "chosen" by the Aborigines to tell the rest of humanity that the so-called "real people" are refusing to reproduce because of the ravages of Western civilization, and that Westerners have a limited time to clean up their act. Marlo Morgan's rudimentary writing skills are stretched to the limit, and she lessens the power of her story and its egalitarian lessons by adopting the perspective that Western culture is innately inferior to the naturalistic beliefs of the Aborigines. | |
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Another Marlo Morgan book is "Message from Forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisdom".
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