The Dogs of Babel: A Novel
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780759547674 (075954767X)
Publish date: June 1st 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
This book is beautiful. Its imagery is rich and captivating. Lexy, the main character's wife, makes masks for a living and this whole book is one long masquerade. It also contains one of the most poignant and realistic treatments of mental illness I've ever read. I identified with Lexy very strongly...
Paul Iverson is having trouble getting hold of his wife. After numerous phone calls home, finally the phone is answered by someone Paul does not know … a police officer who informs Paul his wife has died in an accidental fall from a tree in their backyard. Understandably Paul is grief stricken and...
The Art of Racing in the Rain meets The Time Traveller's Wife. An exploration of marriage, communication, love, loss, grief. Kind of sidles up to canine-human communication as a metaphor for the difficulty of knowing someone else, understanding who they are, what they're saying, what it means as a ...
Terribly sad story of a man trying to find out how and why his wife died by teaching his dog to talk. Not for the squeamish.
Found this on my mother's coffee table while visiting. I had nothing better to do. But actually I probably could have found something better to do.
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