Dogsbody - Softcover

Jones, Diana Wynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064410382 ISBN 13: 9780064410380

Publisher: Greenwillow, 2001

Synopsis

Found guilty of murder, the Dog Star, Sirus, is sentenced by his peers to live on earth as a dog, mistreated by the family of his young mistress and charged with a seemingly impossible quest. Reprint.

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Review:

“...Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears...”
Publishers Weekly

From the Back Cover:

"None of this is true" he shouted.

"Why can't you believe me, instead of listening to him?"

Sirius, immortal Lord of the Dog Star and infamous for his fiery temper, is outraged when he is falsely accused of murder and banished to Earth. There he is reborn into the body of a puppy, and is promised the life-span of that creature to clear his name.

He is adopted by Kathleen, who has no idea that her beloved 'Leo' is anything more than an abandoned stray. But Sirius soon learns that he has enemies amongst the humans, as well as amongst the unearthly beings who sentenced him...

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0064410382
• ISBN 13: 9780064410380
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 261