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THE HUNGRY TIDE

By Amitav Ghosh. Houghton Mifflin. 333 pp. $25

Environmental fiction usually makes its case with the subtlety of a rhinoceros. Rising oceans, a holey ozone, vanishing biodiversity - - we're just one turn of the shrew away from ecological collapse. But it's not only the tree-huggers who preach to the choir through a bullhorn. State of Fear, Michael Crichton's recent bestseller about wicked environmentalists, drove nuance to the edge of extinction.

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