My Dog Tulip
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$32.83
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2010
Summary
Heartwarming and profound, this account of one writer’s relationship with his beloved German Shepherd is “one of the bonafide dog-lit classics” (New Yorker).
The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German Shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the “ideal friend” he had been searching for in vain for years.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590174142 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590174143 |
| Author: | J.R. Ackerley, Elizabeth Thomas |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics 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
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.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, The Social Lives of Dogs- The Grace of Canine Company, and Tamed and Untamed- Close Encounters of the Animal Kind.
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