Lily and the Octopus
by:
Steven Rowley (author)
Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart.When you sit down with Lily and the Octopus, you will be taken on an unforgettable ride. The magic of this novel is in the read, and we...
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Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart.When you sit down with Lily and the Octopus, you will be taken on an unforgettable ride. The magic of this novel is in the read, and we don’t want to spoil it by giving away too many details. We can tell you that this is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can’t live without. For Ted Flask, that someone special is his aging companion Lily, who happens to be a dog. Lily and the Octopus reminds us how it feels to love fiercely, how difficult it can be to let go, and how the fight for those we love is the greatest fight of all. Remember the last book you told someone they had to read? Lily and the Octopus is the next one.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781501126222 (1501126229)
ASIN: 1501126229
Publish date: 2016-06-07
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I can't even... This is a love story. About a man and his dog. And it's not a completely sad story, but it's emotional and made me cry. It's the story of a man and his best friend and an octopus and falling out of love and in love and finding each other and losing each other. It's the story of gr...
This is a sweet, sad, funny and adorable story about a man and his dog. It's very different from any of the man's best friend stories that I've read. The way I took it was that the man personifies his dog. The dog is his world, and he has conversations with his dog all the time. The emotions sne...
So here's the (very short) pitch that got me to buy this novel: This is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can’t live without.For Ted Flask, that someone special is his aging companion Lily, who happens to be a dog. The novel has a weird but memorable title. It ha...
Lily and Ted have spent 12 blissful years together. Just because Lily is a dachshund and Ted is man in his 40s doesn’t mean their relationship means any less. But suddenly it would appear that their time together may be drawing to an end. An interloper, an octopus, has started to take Lily away from...
Lily and the Octopus, Steven Rowley, author; Michael Urie, narrator Ted Flask is 34 years old. He is a writer. Lily is 12 years old which is 84 in dog years. She is a dachshund. She is Ted’s dog. Ted was not sure he could ever have a fully committed relationship with anyone or anything until he foun...
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