Red Dog

Zusatztext 'Red Dog' is the enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the authorof the bestselling 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'. Informationen zum Autor Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin , which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, So Much Life Left Over and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels , the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef . Klappentext A collection of short stories by "Captain Corelli" author, Louis de Bernieres, based on the adventures of a real dog that has become the stuff of legend in a corner of Western Australia. A celebration of an Aussie canine hero, by a writer who has become a household name in recent years. "Contains some of his best writing" "Sunday Times". "Will this become another word-of-mouth "Corelli"-style bestseller? It is certainly possible...life enhancing reading" "Literary Review". Zusammenfassung The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin. ‘In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner.

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De Bernieres brilliantly evokes the red heat of Australian summers. Heat lifts off the pages: turning them is like opening furnace doors Spectator

Product details

• Authors: Louis de Bernieres, Louis de Bernières, Louis De Bernieres, Louis de Bernières, Louis De Berni'res
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2002
• EAN: 9780099429043
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942904-3
• No. of pages: 119
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 176 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Australia, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Short Stories, FICTION / Media Tie-In, FICTION / Animals, Dogs as pets