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Living with the Hyenas
Robert Flynn
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Description for Living with the Hyenas
Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Hyenas are scavengers and predators. They prey on the weak and the helpless and even their fellow predators, the lions. Like lions, the people in Robert Flynn’s stories learn to make accommodations to the hyenas and to a society that tolerates them. Sometimes accommodation is painful, as in “A Boy and His Dog,” the story of a Marine and his dog trained to sniff out mines and booby-traps in the Vietnam War.
Sometimes the process of accommodation is comic, bringing out Flynn’s characteristic wit, as in “At Play in the Sewers of the Lord,” which juxtaposes theology and sewage ... Read more
Hyenas are scavengers and predators. They prey on the weak and the helpless and even their fellow predators, the lions. Like lions, the people in Robert Flynn’s stories learn to make accommodations to the hyenas and to a society that tolerates them. Sometimes accommodation is painful, as in “A Boy and His Dog,” the story of a Marine and his dog trained to sniff out mines and booby-traps in the Vietnam War.
Sometimes the process of accommodation is comic, bringing out Flynn’s characteristic wit, as in “At Play in the Sewers of the Lord,” which juxtaposes theology and sewage ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875651446
SKU
V9780875651446
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Ref
99-67
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