| Dogwalker: Stories Contributor(s): Bradford, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375726691 ISBN-13: 9780375726699 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange-where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, while another lands a cat-faced circus freak for a roommate, and yet another must choose between his pregnant wife and the ten-pound slug he's convinced will bring him a fortune. And throughout these stories moves a divinely inspired collection of dogs: three-legged, no-legged, dogs that sing, that talk, and that give birth to humans. Brilliant, perplexing, and moving, this is a daring debut that strolls along society's fringes and unearths strange beauty among its misfits |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001029769 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.2" W x 8.24" (0.42 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange-where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, while another lands a cat-faced circus freak for a roommate, and yet another must choose between his pregnant wife and the ten-pound slug he's convinced will bring him a fortune. And throughout these stories moves a divinely inspired collection of dogs: three-legged, no-legged, dogs that sing, that talk, and that give birth to humans. Brilliant, perplexing, and moving, this is a daring debut that strolls along society's fringes and unearths strange beauty among its misfits |