Literary Dog - Great Contemporary Dog Stories

"Who else but a dog lover would want to read 50 dog stories in a row? The answer--at least when the stories are this fine--is anyone with an interest in good fiction".--Cleveland Plain Dealer. This wonderful collection includes contemporary works by Doris Lessing, John Updike, Alice Adams, Tobias Wolff, and 30 others.

Summary

“Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.” So says short-story writer Jeanne Schinto in her witty introduction to The Literary Dog, a superlative collection of contemporary stories written by some of the most important writers of our time.

A traditional dog story usually recounts some heroic and unbelievable dog deed that the teller swears is true. The stories in The Literary Dog, however, are not traditional dog stories at all. Writers of short fiction, from Kafka to Updike, have a distinguished history of using the dog as a subject for the highest and purest literary aims, stories not about dogs but rather ones in which dogs are essential and intrinsic to the effect.

Schinto has selected only contemporary pieces, most of which were first published in the 1980s. Including stories by some of the most important writers of our time, this beautiful and highly accomplished collection features good dogs and bad dogs, but only great fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Collectif, Jeanne Schinto
• Assisted by: Jeanne Schinto (Editor), Schinto Jeanne (Editor)
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.1994
• EAN: 9780871135049
• ISBN: 978-0-87113-504-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Nature; USA, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, United States of America, USA, Animal life stories, c 1980 to c 1989, EVENT / Summer Vacation Reading