Sandeagozu - Hardcover

Jenner, Janann V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060156333 ISBN 13: 9780060156336

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1986

Synopsis

Sherahi, a telepathic Burmese python, leads a clan of pet-store rejects--a monkey, a parrot, a coati, and a rattlesnake--through a series of adventures, including a sojourn through the New York City subway system, to find paradise in the San Diego Zoo

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

A 30-ft. python named Sherahi is at the center of this urban Jungle Book. Captured in Burma in 1921, despite her formidable mental powers, Sherahi spends years as a living prop in a burlesque routine before being sold to Leftrack's Pet Emporium in New York City. There she meets the other "culls" (sick and unsalable animals) who tell her of the paradisial Sandeagozu (i.e. The San Diego Zoo) where it is always warm and there are no cages. With four companionsa coatimundi, a macaw, a langur monkey and a rattlesnakeshe escapes into a wintry New York subway and the lairs of ancient white crocodiles before continuing west toward her goal. Although the natural science background is interesting and detailed (the author is a herpetologist), the animals are as anthropomorphized as in any Disney nature film. As a result, the characters are appealing but their melodramatic adventures among stereotyped, mostly cruel humans will do best with animal advocates and fans of such works as The Incredible Journey and Watership Down. Major ad/promo.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The heroine of this fantasy is Sherahi, a 30-foot-long Burmese python with astonishing trans-species mind-reading and telepathic powers. From the dreary confines of a pet emporium in New York City, where exotic dancer Ruthie has abandoned her, Sherahi escapes with a coatimundi, langur, cascabel, and macaw whom she has befriended. Together they survive an imperiled journey to Sandeagozu (the San Diego Zoo?), an imagined Shangri-la for animals, by outsmarting crocodiles in subterranean New York and hitchhiking west. In this novel, animals, particularly snakes, clearly possess the superior minds and emotions; humans are merely tolerated as creatures of greed and ignorance. Though the feats of psychic maneuvering tend to become redundant, this generally well-written first novel will appeal to ophidiaphiles and fans of fantasy.Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0060156333
• ISBN 13: 9780060156336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1