The red hourglass
Subtitle: lives of the predators
By: Gordon Grice.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Predatory animals.; Poisonous animals.
Other titles: Red hour glass
Description: 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.

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.