Thirteen Hundred Rats [electronic resource]
Boyle, T. C.2013
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This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker. When Gerald Loomis loses his wife, friends and neighbors try to rally him with food and suggestions for pets to keep him company. But Gerald has already picked a pet, a Burmese Python he's named Siddhartha. During a cold snap, Gerald ventures out to the pet store to pick up a rat to feed Siddhartha but finds he can't follow through with letting the rat die.
Main title:
Thirteen Hundred Rats [electronic resource] / T. C. Boyle
Author:
Boyle, T. C., Author
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
ISBN:
9781481575454
Language:
English
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BRN:
2766732
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