The Dogs of Babel (Signed First Edition)

Carolyn Parkhurst

ISBN 10: 0316794597 / ISBN 13: 9780316794596

Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2003

About this Item

Little Brown, 2003. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in new dust jacket. A nice tight unread copy, fresh and clean. Pristine! SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First state dust jacket, without any book club logos. Parkhurst s debut novel, a literary mystery about grief and language, became a New York Times bestseller. Optioned for film by Disney and adapted for stage by Book-It Repertory Theatre. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dogs of Babel (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316794597
• ISBN 13: 9780316794596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Discovering clues that indicate his beloved wife may not have died accidentally, Paul Iverson begins a perilous search for the truth while attempting to teach his dog, who witnessed the crime, to communicate.

Review

A heartbreaking exploration of memory and language, grief and redemption (Esquire)

Shimmers with idiosyncratic intrigue ... a humanistic parable of the heart's confusions. (Entertainment Weekly)

Captivatingly strange ... perilously adorable (New York Times)

The most unique and imaginative book I have read in recent times. Parkhurst is a wonderful writer and her story is daring, tender and full of surprises as well as wisdom and insight. I simply could not put it down. (John Searles, author of 'Boy Still Missing'; Senio)

Carolyn Parkhurst's 'Lorelei's Secret' --so luminous, heartbreaking, comic, and daring--is an astonishing debut. Parkhurst writes of love and loss, and, above all, of what we can and cannot know of one another, with power and deeply earned grace. (Richard McCann, author of 'Ghost Letters')

This tightly woven tale has all the right stuff: romance, suspense, fantasy, and an ending that does not disappoint. (Red magazine (US))

Carolyn Parkhurst writes as well about talking dogs and square eggs as she does about the limits of language and the intractable mysteries of the self. 'Lorelei's Secret' is a strange, beautiful and very moving novel that asks us to look, in equal measure, at the puzzle that is grief and the puzzle that is love. (Elizabeth Graver, author of 'The Honey Thief' and)