My Dog Tulip: Movie Tie-In Edition (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Ackerley, J. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590174143 ISBN 13: 9781590174142

Publisher: NYRB Classics, 2011

Synopsis

J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. This clear-eyed and wondering, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as one of the "greatest masterpieces of animal literature," is her biography, a work of faultless and respectful observation that transcends the seeming modesty of its subject. In telling the story of his beloved Tulip, Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships.

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Review:

Wryly comic and strangely moving. --Daily Mail

A beautiful evocation of the relationship between dog and owner, which doesn't lapse into the sentimentality so common in the books that people write about their pets. --Sunday Telegraph

Best animal book ever, by a literary agent bonkers about his Alsatian bitch. --Evening Standard

About the Author:

J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, Certain Poor Shepherds, and The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture. (May 1997)

About this edition

• Publisher: NYRB Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590174143
• ISBN 13: 9781590174142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208