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Woof Woof! Man's Best Friend Book Collection

Item Number: 142

Estimated Value: 30 USD
Sold: 18 USD to LAD215

Number of Bids: 3 - Bid History

Item Description

Dog Stories rounds up a pack of vivid and colorful stories about mans best friend by a wide range of great writers, from Mark Twain and Anton Chekhov to Patricia Highsmith and Jonathan Lethem.The richly drawn and unforgettable canines gathered here include Rudyard Kiplings heroically faithful Garm, Bret Hartes irrepressible scoundrel of a Yellow Dog, and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull Ava, who lives in an apartment building for dogs in Jonathan Lethems Avas Apartment. Here are stories that touchingly illuminate the dogs role in the emotional lives of humans, such as Tobias Wolff's Her Dog, in which 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. Henrys tale of a dissatisfied lap dogs escape to P. G. Wodehouse's cheerfully nave watch dog who simply wants everybody to get along. These writers and others Ray Bradbury, Doris Lessing, Thomas McGuane, Rick Bass, James Salter, and Penelope Lively among themoffer imaginative, lyrical, and empathetic portraits of humanity's most devoted companion. (amazon.com)

Willing Dogs & Reluctant Masters: on friendship and dogs
In this book Gary Borjesson explores what it means to be friends really friends with a dog, and how that relationship can illuminate and inform the other friendships in our lives."We can learn much about friendship by examining our relationships with dogs, partly because of what we have in common with them, but also because of what we do not. Willing Dogs & Reluctant Masters will delight dog owners as they see themselves and their dogs in Gary Borjesson's account of human-canine relations. And it will encourage all readers to wonder anew about how friendship enriches our lives. (amazon.com)