Thirteen Hundred Rats
About this audiobook
This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.
When Gerald Loomis loses his wife, friends and neighbors try to rally him with food and suggestions for pets to keep him company. But Gerald has already picked a pet, a Burmese Python he's named Siddhartha. During a cold snap, Gerald ventures out to the pet store to pick up a rat to feed Siddhartha but finds he can't follow through with letting the rat die.
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About the author
T. Coraghessan Boyle vive con su familia cerca de Santa Barbara, California. Recibió su doctorado en literatura inglesa de la University of Iowa y ha enseñado escritura creativa en la University of Southern California desde 1977. Otras de sus famosas novelas incluyen World’s End (ganador del premio PEN/Faulkner en ficción) y Water Music. Sus novelas cortas aparecen regularmente en revistas de prestigio como Harper’s y The New Yorker.
