Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories
Title | Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Watson |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2002-08-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1324000430 |
"His people and dogs—those wonderful dogs!—come alive with honest, thrumming energy." —The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award In prose so precise and beautiful it makes a reader's hair stand on end, Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves. In each of these stories he captures the animal crannies of the human personality -- yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, drawn to human connection but also to thoughtless abandon and savagery without judgment. Ultimately, however, people are responsible where dogs are not: "I'm told in medieval times," the narrator of the title story tells us, "animals were regularly put on trial, with witnesses and testimony and so forth. But it is relatively rare today." Funny, dark, sometimes brutal, and stunning in their perfection of expression, Watson's stories herald the arrival of a true talent.
Last Days Of The Dog Men Stories
Title | Last Days Of The Dog Men Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Watson |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2002-08-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393321203 |
In each of these stories, Brad Watson writes about people and dogs; dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as victims; and about people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves.
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Title | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World PDF eBook |
Author | C. A. Fletcher |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316449474 |
A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale. . .punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world. My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before all the people went away. But we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came. "This unputdownable story has everything -- a well-imagined post-apocalyptic world, great characters, incredible suspense, and, of course, the fierce love of some very good dogs." -- Kirkus (starred review)
Dog Man
Title | Dog Man PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Sherrill |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781594201240 |
Morie Sawataishi lives a life that is radically unconventional by any standard but almost absurd in blatantly conformist Japan. Journalist Martha Sherrill provides a profound look at what it takes to be an individualist in a culture where rebels are rare.
Bring Out the Dog
Title | Bring Out the Dog PDF eBook |
Author | Will Mackin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0812995643 |
In this short story collection, a decorated U.S. Navy veteran gives readers a powerful depiction of life on the front lines of today's warfare. When so many missions take place behind night vision, ancient credos, and layers of secrecy, Mackin's stories capture the tragedy and heroism, degradation and exultation in the smallest details of war.
The Last Days of Dogtown
Title | The Last Days of Dogtown PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Diamant |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2007-03-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416556834 |
“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.” Among the inhabitants of this hamlet are Black Ruth, who dresses as a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of his aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself against all imaginable odds. Rendered in stunning, haunting detail, with Anita Diamant’s keen ear for language and profound compassion for her characters, The Last Days of Dogtown is an extraordinary retelling of a long-forgotten chapter of early American life.
The Stories of I.C. Eason, King of the Dog People
Title | The Stories of I.C. Eason, King of the Dog People PDF eBook |
Author | I. C. Eason |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781574410129 |
Pipelines, and put up miles of power lines. All of a sudden he was in the middle of a big battle, and he soon became known as "The King of the Dog People."