| The Difficulty of Being a Dog Contributor(s): Grenier, Roger (Author), Kaplan, Alice (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226308286 ISBN-13: 9780226308289 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: The forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within "The Difficulty of Being a Dog" dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs. In doing so, Roger Grenier introduces us to dogs real and literary, famous and reviled--from Ulysses's Argos to Freud's Lun to the hundreds of dogs exiled from Constantinople in 1910 and deposited on a desert island--and gives us a sense of what makes our relationships with them so meaningful. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Pets | Dogs - General - Pets | Essays & Narratives - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 636.708 |
| LCCN: 00033771 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.32" W x 7.94" (0.38 lbs) 139 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Grenier, Roger: - Roger Grenier (1919-2017) was a French journalist, writer, and editor. He published over thirty novels, short stories, and literary essays and was the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Grand Prix de Littéature de l'Académie Française. For many years he was an editor at France's leading publishing house, Editions Gallimard.Kaplan, Alice: - Alice Kaplan is the author of French Lessons: A Memoir, The Collaborator, The Interpreter, and Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, and the translator of OK, Joe, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, A Box of Photographs, and Palace of Books. Her books have been twice finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, once for the National Book Award, and she is a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She holds the John M. Musser chair in French literature at Yale. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut. |