Author: |
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Angus Wilson
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Title: |
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The Old Men at the Zoo |
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No copies available |
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Published in: |
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English |
Binding: |
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Paperback |
Pages: |
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345 |
Date: |
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1979 |
ISBN: |
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0586049029 |
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Granada Publishers (Panther Books) |
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0.35 pounds |
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4.2 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches |
Previous givers: |
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1 DubaiReader (United Arab Emirates) |
Previous moochers: |
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1 Sandra F. (Canada) |
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Product Description
Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy - the fantasy of war. This tense and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma.
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http://bookmooch.com/0586049029 |
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