is a tipoff that Adams isn’t going for subtlety - is a moral stain, a leprous monument to cruelty ironically situated in the breathtakingly beautiful Lake Country of northern England. The Animal Research, Surgical and Experimental - the acronym A.R.S.E. This is the tragic story of Rowf and his friend Snitter, two dogs who have been brutalized in an all-purpose English animal-research facility, their escape, and their harrowing efforts to stay alive. Indeed it is, and Adams leaves no doubt in readers’ minds in his hard-edged, polemical third novel, the spiritual cousin to his first, the world-wide bestseller “Watership Down.” “It’s a hard world for animals,” says Rowf, one of the two canine narrators in Richard Adams’ 1977 novel “The Plague Dogs.” The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. Note: The Backlist is a series of occasional reviews of worthy books published in years past.
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