Hear Him Roar
Andrew
Wingfield
240 pages, softcover: $19.95
Utah
State University Press, 2005.
Puma
concolor, the mountain lion, meets Homo dingus
dongus, the urban dweller who is all for wild nature
— as long as it’s predator-free. Set in Sacramento,
Calif., this is a tensely told novel about the inevitable conflict
between humans and big cats, fueled by growth that’s turned
former rangeland into “something that looked like a Scrabble board
late in the game, at the point when you can’t get a word in
edgewise.”
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