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Central Park in the Dark
Marie Winn
More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
July 2008
On Sale: June 24, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0374120110
EAN: 9780374120115
Hardcover
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Fiction
Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime
creatures of the city that never sleeps
Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central
Park in the Dark explores a once-hidden world in a series
of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary
denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her
beguiling account of a city’s lakes and woodlands at night
takes the reader through the cycle of seasons as
experienced by nocturnal active beasts (raccoons, bats,
black skimmers, and sleeping robins among them), insects
(moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and slugs (in all
their unexpected poetical randiness). Winn does not neglect
her famous protagonists Pale Male and Lola, the hawks that
captivated readers years ago, but this time she adds an
exciting narrative about thirty-eight screech owls in
Central Park and their lives, loves, and tragedies there. An eye-popping amount of natural history is packed into
this entertaining book—on bird physiology, spiders,
sunsets, dragonflies, meteor showers, and the nature of
darkness. But the human drama is never forgotten, for
Central Park at night boasts a floating population not only
of lovers, dog walkers, and policemen but of regulars young
and old who, like Winn, hope to unlock the secrets of urban
nature. These “night people” are drawn into a peculiar kind
of intimacy. While exploring the astonishing variety of
wildlife in the city park, they end up revealing more of
their inner lives than they expected.
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