A Rats Tale
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
Published: September 1990
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374462048
First sentence: In a sticky midsummer day, when the heat and humidity kept most of the creatures in Central Park from stirring, a young rat named Montague Mad-Rat-or, to be precise, Montague Mad-Rat the Younger-was busy collecting feathers in the birds' preening grounds above the reservoir.