Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

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Author: Robert Sullivan
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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Sullivan, Robert

Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

$36.57

Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

$36.57
Author: Robert Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

New York Public Library Book for the Teenager
New York Public Library Book to Remember
PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year

"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Behold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant New York Times bestseller.

Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat.

Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.

With an all-new Afterword by the author

Author: Robert Sullivan
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 04/11/2005
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781582344775

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.1
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86054 / Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 109
Men's Journal 04/01/2010 pg. 35

About the Author

Robert Sullivan is the author of The Meadowlands and A Whale Hunt, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He is a contributing editor to Vogue and a longtime contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.


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