The Spectator, January 22nd, 2005
The year of the rat RATS by Robert Sullivan Cranta, £12, pp. 256, ISBN 1862077614 £11 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
'Ah,' Robert Sullivan exclaims in this artful book, 'the excitement, the nail-biting and palpably semi-wild thrill of ratting in the city!' An otherwise apparently sane American writer and journalist, Sullivan chose to spend four seasons observing the rats in New York's Eden's Alley, five blocks from Broadway. Settling down with night-vision binoculars, a folding chair and a thermos, he catalogued the behaviour of 'his' rats as they scuttled over soot-peppered ice or for...
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