The Red Hourglass

Lives of the Predators

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Insects & Spiders, Animals, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book The Red Hourglass by Gordon Grice, Random House Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Gordon Grice ISBN: 9780307568144
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication: October 21, 2009
Imprint: Delta Language: English
Author: Gordon Grice
ISBN: 9780307568144
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication: October 21, 2009
Imprint: Delta
Language: English

Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.

Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live."

Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.

Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live."

Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.

More books from Random House Publishing Group

Cover of the book The Shade of My Own Tree by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book To Desire a Wicked Duke by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book War of the Spark: Forsaken (Magic: The Gathering) by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book The Off-Hollywood Film Guide by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book The New Rules of Marriage by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Garfield Bigger Than Life by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Warriors of God by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Memories of the Ford Administration by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book The Exact Same Moon by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Shotgun Sorceress by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book Last Puzzle & Testament by Gordon Grice
Cover of the book The Sun King by Gordon Grice
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy