Writers on the Character of Canines
Celebrating contemporary writers and the dogs in their lives, best-selling authors Nicholas Dawidoff, on needing obedience school as much as his dog and Chuck Palahniuk on the otherworldly job of rescue dogs. Rene Steinke describes the shameful gluttony of her boyfriend's dog; Pearl Abraham writes of sneaking a dog into her life in defiance of the Chassidic community; and Elissa Schappell gives us the other side of the coin in her hilarious treatise against dogs.
Like the best writing on anything, each of these pieces are both about specific dogs and about all dogs, and, most importantly, about something bigger and more essential than dogs themselves: life, and how we choose to live it. With black-and-white images of the inscrutable canines that inhabit our landscape, this book will surprise and entrance, and make even the most skeptical dog observer see the world in a new way.
