Angus Wilson - The Old Men At The Zoo (1st Edition)
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Published in 1961, this is a first edition. Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals. Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy, ...the fantasy of war. This tense, dystopian and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma. UK postage is 2nd class and is offered internationally through Ebay Global Shipping.
