The glass-sided ants' nest [Hardcover]

Peter Dickinson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 186 pages
• Publisher: Harper & Row (1968)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006BVZNE
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,088,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The most original title!, June 16, 2008

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Glass-Sided Ant's Nest (Paperback)

And the book is an original too. This is the first of Peter Dickinson's books, and it should be read for that at least. This is probably the most unusual book that I've ever read. Picture a tribe of New Guinea aborigines transplanted intact into a London house. The chief is found murdered and that puts Chief Superintendent Pibble on the hunt in this rabbit's warren of a building, for a murderer. What he discovers as he searches is bizarre - a bowl of blood, a world where the women live in the Women's hut and the men live in the Men's hut, and strange smells to name a few. I certainly cannot do justice in this review to this highly original story, so you must read it for yourself, and be prepared to mesmerized and baffled until the dark and terrible end.