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Doctor Rat
Doctor Rat
Author: William Kotzwinkle
Kotzwinkle uses a fast talking insane rodent to portray a macabre view of the inside of an animal experimentation laboratory grotesquely similar to a Nazi concentration camp. In the words of Dr. Rat himself "...having been driven insane, I hold the necessary degree in psychology."
ISBN-13: 9780380639908
ISBN-10: 0380639904
Publication Date: 7/1983
Pages: 224
Edition: Reprint
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Avon Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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valynlee avatar reviewed Doctor Rat on
Helpful Score: 2
My wife got me to read this book. I was surprised at how good it is. Told from the perspective of a lab rat. The writing is fast paced, the characters are great. The story itself is kind of sad, but it's well worth a read!
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Helpful Score: 1
a chilling fable that joins such great political satires as Animal Farm and 1984, Doctor Rat, is an unforgettable indictment of man's inhumanity to man, and to all living things. With macabre humor and bitter irony, Kotzwinkle uses his fast talking rodent, Doctor Rat, as mankind's apologist in an animal experimentation laboratory grotesquely similar to a Nazi concentration camp. There he spins a frightening moral tale so harsh, so real, so teimely, it cannot be ignored.
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