When the Killing's Done
‘How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.'The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company mig…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4088-1399-7
- EAN: 9781408813997
- Produktnummer: 13916617
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'679 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
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