Boyle, T.C.

When the Killing's Done

New York, Viking Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in bulk, to authors for signing, a favor for which he paid. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for author's signature at title page. Stamped author initials to pumpkin cloth covers. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Another fine and bracing novel by the esteemed author, set among National Forest Service personnel. Author of nine collections of stories, a dozen novels, and a beloved professor of English literature at University of Southern California. 369 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . As New/As New,

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Boyle, T.C.

When the Killing's Done

, Viking Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Yet another fine novel by the Irish author, author also of The Women. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's signature at first free endpaper. Stamped author initials to pumpkin cloth covers. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Another fine and bracing novel by the esteemed author, set among National Forest Service personnel. Author of nine collections of stories, a dozen novels, and a beloved professor of English literature at University of Southern California. 369 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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BOYLE, T. C.

When the killing's done

London, Bloomsbury. 2011, First Edition - First Printing. (ISBN: -) Cloth with dust jacket, 6F3. not price-clipped, 369 pag. Very Good.

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T.C Boyle

When the Killing's Done

New York, Viking Adult, 2011-02. First American.Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket First American Edition Clean 369 pp. See our Three Geeseinflight Book Scan of Cover. Fine/Fine.

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T. C. Boyle

When The Killing's Done

Viking 2011 Hardback, 369pp. From the bestselling author of The Womencomes an action- packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them. Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the island's endangered native creatures from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert the plans of Alma and her colleagues. Their confrontation plays out in a series of escalating scenes in which these characters violently confront one another, and tempt the awesome destructive power of nature itself. Boyle deepens his story by going back in time to relate the harrowing tale of Alma's grandmother Beverly, who was the sole survivor of a 1946 shipwreck in the channel, as well as the tragic story of Anise's mother, Rita, who in the late 1970s lived and worked on a sheep ranch on Santa Cruz Island. In dramatizing this collision between protectors of the environment and animal rights' activists, Boyle is, in his characteristic fashion, examining one of the essential questions of our time: Who has the right of possession of the land, the waters, the very lives of all the creatures who share this planet with us? When the Killing's Donewill offer no transparent answers, but like The Tortilla Curtain, Boyle's classic take on illegal immigration, it will touch you deeply and put you in a position to decide. DJ. Ex lib. (ISBN: 9780670022328). Good.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle

When The Killing's Done

Bloomsbury 2011 Paperback, 369pp. 'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done. ' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company might explain some of her zeal. With days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma's plan is in danger of sabotage. (ISBN: 9781408814185). Very Good.

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