DINNER ALONG THE AMAZON. Findley, Timothy. Markham (Ont.), Penguin Books, c1984. 253pp, paper, $6.95, ISBN 0-14-0073-04.3. (Penguin Short Fiction) CIP Adult Reviewed by Philip K. Harber Volume 13 Number 2 1985 March The title story suggests the precarious balance between reality and illusion in the interplay among a group of people at a Toronto dinner-party, which many readers will find familiar. Under the civilized surface, they are like the primitive tribesmen of Borneo or the Amazon, locked in the endless conflict between men and women, in which men have "a childlike fear of the power of women to give birth" (p.243). This fear, derived from our childhood experiences and misconceptions, is a consistent characteristic of Findley's people, who live in "Cheever-land" as our neighbours, but are revealed here in their macabre and painful reality. Philip K. Harber, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ont.