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A unique literary exploration of the motives and mechanics of predators, which come in all sizes the world over, introduces readers to the beauty and deadliness of nature in a way that reveals parallels with our own, human society. Reprint.
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"Gordon Grice is one hell of a writer. I was originally disturbed by some of the killing he depicts, but his descriptions are so compelling that I had to read on. I'm glad I did."
--Jeffrey Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love
"The Red Hourglass marks the debut of a fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in American nature writing."
--Michael Pollan, author of A Place of My Own and Second Nature
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--Jeffrey Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love
"The Red Hourglass marks the debut of a fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in American nature writing."
--Michael Pollan, author of A Place of My Own and Second Nature
From the Hardcover edition.
Gordon Grice's writing about the black widow spider has appeared in High Plains Literary Review and Harper's. It has been anthologized in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Essays 1996 and in college readers. Grice teaches humanities and English at Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas. He lives in rural Oklahoma with his wife and their three-year-old son.
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- Data di pubblicazione1999
- ISBN 10 0385318901
- ISBN 13 9780385318907
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- Numero di pagine272
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Repackaged to coincide with his new compendium of dangerous animals, Deadly Kingdom, Gordon Grice's acclaimed collection of essays on animals is "eye-popping"*, "chilling**, "morbidly fascinating."***Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live."Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil. Greeted with wide critical acclaim, this is a starkly beautiful, poetic, and often dryly funny literary exploration into the motives and mechanics of predators in the natural world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780385318907
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