05054cam a2200409 4500 234712007 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781483072357 1483072355 3dc5d9c9-561f-4ee9-9a48-4cc91f70e608 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 462145 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982489960 462145 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Boyle, T. Coraghessan. When the Killing's Done [Libby] : A Novel. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 446MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 446MB. Fiction. Thriller. "[Boyle's] sleek prose yields a tale that is complex, thought-provoking, and darkly funny—everything we have come to expect from him.". Publishers Weekly (starred review.) T.C. Boyle excels at rollicking black humor, and humanity's attempt to control the environment provides him with ample fodder. Alma Boyd Takasue is a National Park Service biologist who is bent on ridding the islands off the coast of Santa Barbara of vermin to return it to a natural environment for the native birds and foxes. (Such hubris!) Opposed is the equally zealous but more unpleasant David LaJoy, who believes that killing any animal is wrong. Narrator Anthony Heald dials up the irony an extra notch. He employs a strident tone to capture LaJoy's volatility and slightly increases his pace for LaJoy's inner dialogue, though which the biologist expresses constant irritation with life's inconveniences. Heald's hippy-dippy voice for LaJoy's friend, Wilson, is marvelous fun, although Takasue's New Zealand feral pig-hunting ally is less successful. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p>From the bestselling author of <i>The Women</i> comes an action-packed adventure about endangered animals and those who would protect them.</p> <p>Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T. C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the islands' endangered native creatures from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert the plans of Alma and her colleagues.</p> <p>Their confrontation plays out in a series of escalating scenes in which these characters violently confront one another, contemplate acts of sabotage, court danger, and tempt the awesome destructive power of nature itself. Boyle deepens his story by going back in time to relate the harrowing tale of Alma's grandmother, Beverly, who was the sole survivor of a 1946 shipwreck in the channel, as well as the tragic story of Anise's mother, Rita, who in the late 1970s lived and worked on a sheep ranch on Santa Cruz Island. In dramatizing this collision between protectors of the environment and animal rights activists, Boyle is, in his characteristic fashion, examining one of the essential questions of our time: Who has the right of possession of the land, the waters, the very lives of all the creatures who share this planet with us?</p> <p>When the <i>Killing's Done</i> will offer no transparent answers, but like <i>The Tortilla Curtain</i>, Boyle's classic take on illegal immigration, it will touch you deeply and put you in a position to decide.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:22. Heald, Anthony. http://lonestardigitalibrary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3dc5d9c9-561f-4ee9-9a48-4cc91f70e608 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/462145-WhenTheKillingsDone.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/462145-WhenTheKillingsDone.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3DC5D9C9-561F-4EE9-9A48-4CC91F70E608&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/462145-WhenTheKillingsDone.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/462145-WhenTheKillingsDone.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3DC5D9C9-561F-4EE9-9A48-4CC91F70E608&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXPLE