{"product_id":"9781582344775","title":"Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants","description":"\u003cp\u003e•A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eA New York Public Library Book to Remember from 2004 \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eA PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove 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 \u003ci\u003eRats\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eRats\u003c\/i\u003e earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Sullivan is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Meadowlands \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Whale Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e, both \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books of the Year. He is a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e and a longtime contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an all-new Afterword by the author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times bestseller A Book Sense selection in hardcover A Book Sense bestseller A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller A NEBA, NCIBA, and PNBA bestseller \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings.\"-Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Immensely lively, enjoyable, learned, witty and yes, appealing.\"-Philip Lopate, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sullivan's book is a rollicking, richly drawn history...[he] offers up a parade of eccentric characters who deserve to be in the movies.\"-\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating.\"-\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sullivan persuasively associates the 'truth' he learns about rats with a deeper understanding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040808616176,"sku":"9781582344775","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781582344775_p0.jpg?v=1769900812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781582344775","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}