On Animals

Books

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." -The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." -San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." -Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." -The Boston Globe Susan Orlean-the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book-gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. "How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages," writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures-the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end ...