The Rat
"A melange of fable, history, polemic, diatribe and jeremiad, its prose interspersed with verse, The Rat . . . defies brief description and amply displays Grass's fecund imagination," stated PW . The flounder and the tin drummer of previous works reappear and "Manheim's heroic translation lucidly conveys Grass's linguistic idiosyncrasies, bizarre neologisms and madcap eccentricities."Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.