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Snake venom that digests individual flesh. A building cleared of each living thing with a band of small spiders. A child insect eating its living victim from within, keeping the essential organs for last. These are on the list of deadly feats of natural anatomist you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning publisher Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has experienced around his rural Oklahoma home. Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a global where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers have got contaminants so lethal concerning defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, dispersed like "the cast-off jackets of untidy children", inform a quiet tale of violent self-extermination. It's a global you'll understand despite its unique strangeness - the earth where we live. Unabashedly stepping into the blend, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor - collecting spiders and other vermin, designing a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a fight between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live on". Get rid of. Eat. Partner. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our very own predatory aspect. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy in our distinctions between normal and excessive, lifeless and alive, innocent and evil.
