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

The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback with an all-new Afterword by the author. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. \n \nNew York Public Library Book for the Teenager \nNew York Public Library Book to Remember \nPSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year \n \nEngaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings.-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times \n \nBehold 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. \n \nLove 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. \n \nSullivan 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. \n \nWith an all-new Afterword by the author\n