The Year Of The Angry Rabbit
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj with moderate wear along the edges;
What happens when Australia's most persistent agricultural pest mutates into something far more terrifying? The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Braddon is a darkly comic satirical novel set in Australia, in which a new myxomatosis strain intended to wipe out the country's devastating rabbit population produces an unintended and catastrophic consequence — rabbits of monstrous size and lethal aggression that begin turning the tables on humanity itself. As chaos spreads across the continent, the novel chronicles the hapless political and military responses of a nation utterly unprepared for a threat it inadvertently created, skewering bureaucratic incompetence and human hubris with razor-sharp wit. Braddon, celebrated for his wartime memoir The Naked Island, brings the same unflinching observational eye to this absurdist tale, illustrating how quickly the veneer of civilisation can collapse in the face of the unexpected. Rich with biting social commentary and a distinctly Australian sensibility, the novel operates as both a rollicking creature-comedy and a pointed allegory about mankind's arrogant tampering with nature. First published in 1964 and later adapted into the cult horror-comedy film Night of the Lepus, this is a book that leaves the reader equal parts laughing and unsettled — wondering whether the real predators were ever the rabbits at all.
Author: Russell Braddon
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Heinemann, London
Genre: Fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj with moderate wear along the edges;
What happens when Australia's most persistent agricultural pest mutates into something far more terrifying? The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Braddon is a darkly comic satirical novel set in Australia, in which a new myxomatosis strain intended to wipe out the country's devastating rabbit population produces an unintended and catastrophic consequence — rabbits of monstrous size and lethal aggression that begin turning the tables on humanity itself. As chaos spreads across the continent, the novel chronicles the hapless political and military responses of a nation utterly unprepared for a threat it inadvertently created, skewering bureaucratic incompetence and human hubris with razor-sharp wit. Braddon, celebrated for his wartime memoir The Naked Island, brings the same unflinching observational eye to this absurdist tale, illustrating how quickly the veneer of civilisation can collapse in the face of the unexpected. Rich with biting social commentary and a distinctly Australian sensibility, the novel operates as both a rollicking creature-comedy and a pointed allegory about mankind's arrogant tampering with nature. First published in 1964 and later adapted into the cult horror-comedy film Night of the Lepus, this is a book that leaves the reader equal parts laughing and unsettled — wondering whether the real predators were ever the rabbits at all.