The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful'Garm',Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a'yaller dog'and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem's'Ava's Apartment'. Here are stories which touchingly illuminate the dog's role in the emotional lives of humans,such as Tobias Wolff's'Her Dog',where a widower shares his grief for his wife with her grieving pet. Here,too,are humorous glimpses of the canine point of view,from O. Henry's tale of a dissatisfied lapdog's escape to P. G. Wodehouse's cheerfully nave watchdog who simply wants everybody to get along. These writers and others - Ray Bradbury,JamesThurber and Penelope Lively among them - offer imaginative,lyrical and empathetic portraits of man and woman's most devoted companion
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781841596068Number of pages: 384Weight: 397 gDimensions: 189 x 123 x 28 mm
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