Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Monday, August 3 2009.

• The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback with an all-new afterword by the author. Love 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 Rats, 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, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Robert Sullivan: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Friday, July 17 2009.

• WHEN I WROTE the following account of my experiences with rats, I lived in an apartment building on a block filled with other apartment buildings, amidst the approximately eight million people in New York City, and I paid rent to a landlord that I never actually met-though I did meet the superintendent, who was a very nice guy.