The Difficulty of Being a Dog |
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Author:
| Grenier, Roger |
Translator:
| Kaplan, Alice |
ISBN: | 978-0-226-30828-9 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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The forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within
The Difficulty of Being a Dog dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs. In doing so, Roger Grenier introduces us to dogs real and literary, famous and reviled--from Ulysses's Argos to Freud's Lün to the hundreds of dogs exiled from Constantinople in 1910 and deposited on a desert island--and gives us a sense of what makes our relationships with them...
More DescriptionThe forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within The Difficulty of Being a Dog dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs. In doing so, Roger Grenier introduces us to dogs real and literary, famous and reviled--from Ulysses's Argos to Freud's Lün to the hundreds of dogs exiled from Constantinople in 1910 and deposited on a desert island--and gives us a sense of what makes our relationships with them so meaningful.