Last Days of the Dog-men - Hardcover

Watson, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393039269 ISBN 13: 9780393039269

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996

Synopsis

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."

About this title

From the Publisher:

American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
Last Days of the Dog-Men won this year's Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Shelby Foote was one of its biggest advocates. At the awards dinner, he recommended the book to Richard Ford, saying, among other things, "it's the damnedest writing about dogs you ever saw."

Synopsis:

A collection of stories about people and dogs--dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as victims of human ruthlessness--captures various aspects of the human personality in connection to the instinctual personalities of dogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393039269
• ISBN 13: 9780393039269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 100