The Dogs of Babel
When his wife dies in a fall from a tree in their backyard, linguist Paul Iverson is wild with despair. In the days that follow, Paul becomes certain that Lexy's death was no accident. Strange clues have been left behind: unique, personal messages that only she could have left and that he is...
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When his wife dies in a fall from a tree in their backyard, linguist Paul Iverson is wild with despair. In the days that follow, Paul becomes certain that Lexy's death was no accident. Strange clues have been left behind: unique, personal messages that only she could have left and that he is determined to decipher. So begins Paul's fantastic and even perilous search for the truth, as he abandons his everyday life to embark on a series of experiments designed to teach his dog Lorelei to communicate. Is this the project of a madman? Or does Lorelei really have something to tell him about the last afternoon of a woman he only thought he knew?...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316168687 (0316168688)
Publish date: June 13th 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 264
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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