Librarian, Bob, has reviewed this NYT article.
Wilson, E.O. Anthill. W.W.Norton.
When a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, acknowledged authority on insects and outspoken advocate of biodiversity turns novelist that is major news. Wilson, who will be 81 this year, does not disappoint in his fictional debut. Viewed from the standpoint of a professor/family friend Raff Cody's Alabama childhood is tangled in a tug of war between his mother's social ambitions and father's emphasis on the lessons of manhood. Finding solace in the study of insects, Raff writes an undergraduate thesis entitled "The Anthill Chronicles" (takes up the middle section of the book) which views life from the ant's point of view. Gaining a "grow or die" philosophy from his research Raff has amassed the determination to stop real estate developers from buying up a place he hold dear: one of the last pine savanna areas in the state
Also by E.O. Wilson at Merrick Library:
The Future of Life
In Search of Nature
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
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