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Sean Wilsey: Rats!, 17 March 2005
Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan.
Granta, 242 pp., £12.99, January 2005,1 86207 761 4 Show More
by Robert Sullivan.
Granta, 242 pp., £12.99, January 2005,
“... of the brown rat. One night, in the poultry part of old Gansevoort Market, alongside the Hudson, a burrow of them bit the throats of over three hundred broilers and ate less than a dozen. Before this part of the market was abandoned, in 1942, the rats practically had charge of it. Some of them nested in the drawers of desks. When the drawers were pulled ... ”