Wrong Dog Dream (eBook)

Jane Vandenburgh (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
384 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-209-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The author calls this a true romance, saying, its the part of her personal history she, being superstitious, was almost afraid to write. Shed grown up accustomed to bad luck, but had by accident or miracle survived her own circumstances: being orphaned, her own misspent youth, the chaos of a broken marriage. Shed more than survived, shed even triumphed and had awakened into a kind of charmed splendor to find herself living in a white marble city with storybook castles, knowing famous people, being invited to the White House to listen to her husband discuss Yeats with the President of the United States, as Bill Clinton drinks Diet Coke from the can.And into this fabled chapter of the writers life comes the perfect dog, an English Springer Spaniel named Whistler who arrives not only the family pet, but as her private symbol of triumph over all that age-old sadness. She wants to ignore it but cant help but see that their perfect pup is something of a neurotic mess, snarling at manhole covers, barking at children, growling at people in wheelchairs. The writer herself is not seemingly done with the anxieties born of all that early trauma and loss, and she begins to worry obsessively about losing this difficult dog, the one they so love. Wrrrrnnnggdgggg! she begins to dream. Wrrrrrnnnnng dgggg!

Autor

Jane Vandenburgh is the award-winning author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset, as well as Architecture of the Novel, A Writer’s Handbook and The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, A Memoir. She has taught writing and literature at U. C. Davis, the George Washington University, and, most recently, at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Callfornia. A native of Berkeley, she has returned to live with her family in the West, and with Wayne Thiebaud, her new dog.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Anxiety • Autobiography • berkely • Bill Clinton • Divorce • Dogs • failure to zig-zag • Family • famous • Greyhound • jane vandenbergh • jane vandenburg • jane vandenburgh • jane vanderberg • jane vanderburg • jane vanderburgh • Love • marriage • Memoir • neighbors • neurotic • orphan • personal history • PET • Romance • Springer Spaniel • Washington DC • Whistler • Writer
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-209-5 / 1619022095
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-209-6 / 9781619022096