| This book showcases celebrated contemporary
writers and the dogs in their lives. Here are best-selling authors
Nicholas
Dawidoff, on needing obedience school as much as his dog, and Chuck
Palahniuk,
on the otherworldly job of rescue dogs. Rene Steinke describes the
shameful
gluttony of her boyfriend's dog; Pearl Abraham writes of sneaking a dog
into her life in defiance of the Chassidic community in which she was
raised;
and Chris Offutt reminisces about the Kentucky dog of his childhood,
locked
out of the house, injured with buckshot, but still deeply loved. Elissa
Schappell gives us the other side of the coin in her hilarious treatise
against dogs. Like the best writing on anything,
each of these pieces are both about specific dogs and about all dogs,
and,
most importantly, about something bigger and more essential than dogs
themselves:
life, and how we choose to live it. With black-and-white images of the
inscrutable canines that inhabit our landscape, this book will surprise
and entrance, and make even the most skeptical dog observer see the
world
in a new way. |
Dog Culture
Writers on the Character
of Canines
edited by Ken Foster
The Lyons Press, 2004.
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a copy
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