My Dog Tulip (NYRB Classics) (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

J.R. Ackerley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322110 ISBN 13: 9780940322110

Publisher: New York Review Books, 1999

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0940322110
• ISBN 13: 9780940322110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208