Lily and the Octopus
by:
Steven Rowley (author)
A revelatory literary novel reminiscent of The Life of Pi and The Art of Racing in the Rain, a struggling writer finds himself unable to open up to the possibility of love - except through the companionship of his aging dachshund Lily. But with the unexpected arrival of a small octopus that...
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A revelatory literary novel reminiscent of The Life of Pi and The Art of Racing in the Rain, a struggling writer finds himself unable to open up to the possibility of love - except through the companionship of his aging dachshund Lily. But with the unexpected arrival of a small octopus that affixes itself to Lily's head, it soon becomes clear the invader is strangling the life from his dog and threatening the bond with his one true friend.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781471154355 (1471154351)
ASIN: 1471154351
Publish date: 2016-06-06
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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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