Thirteen hundred rats
(2014)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2014
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (32 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781482951851 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11039519, 1482951851 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11039519
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by the author

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

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