This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.
- ISBN10 043608273X
- ISBN13 9780436082733
- Publish Date 28 February 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 November 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English