The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs Author: The New Yorker Magazine | Language: English | ISBN:
067964475X | Format: EPUB
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs Description
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The title says it all. It’s from the New Yorker! It’s about dogs! It has a foreward by hot author Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, 2008)! And, of course, it has wonderful cartoons! This marvelous collection of essays, stories, short humor pieces, drawings, poems—and cartoons—could not have come from any other source but the New Yorker. What other publication has enough good stuff in the vaults to begin each section (“Good Dogs,” “Bad Dogs,” “Top Dogs,” and “Underdogs”) with a piece by James Thurber? Also included are such tidbits as a Roald Dahl story about an attempted fiddle at a greyhound race; Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin; Ogden Nash’s ode “For a Good Dog”; a piece on dog whisperer Cesar Millan by Gladwell; an Arthur Miller coming-of-age story involving sex and a puppy; and Anne Sexton’s poem on having to love her beloved’s old dog. Scattered throughout are doggy magazine covers, artwork, photographs, and the iconic cartoons. A must-have. --Nancy Bent
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“The title says it all. It’s from the
New Yorker! It’s about dogs! . . . And, of course, it has wonderful cartoons. . . . Marvelous . . . A must-have.”—
Booklist“Do you have a dog lover in your family or circle of friends? Do you need to get them a holiday gift? Look no further.
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs is a terrific book. . . . Big in dimension, quantity and quality.”—Forbes.com
“I usually hate anthologies. . . . But this one works triumphantly. . . . Above all it works because there is tremendous writing. Because of the amused insouciance, the self-deprecation, the gentle unfolding of a structural irony, the skip and reveal of the final sentence, the knowledge of Not Too Much that seems intrinsic to the
New Yorker. And cartoons.”—Edmund De Waal,
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- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Random House; First Edition edition (October 30, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 067964475X
- ISBN-13: 978-0679644750
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.1 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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