Dogwalker: Stories
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Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange-where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, while another lands a cat-faced circus freak for a roommate, and yet another must choose between his pregnant wife and the ten-pound slug he's convinced will bring him a fortune. And throughout these stories moves a divinely inspired collection of dogs: three-legged, no-legged, dogs that sing, that talk, and that give birth to humans. Brilliant, perplexing, and moving, this is a daring debut that strolls along society's fringes and unearths strange beauty among its misfits
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0375726691
ISBN13:9780375726699
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.2" x 8.2"
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Contemporary Fiction Humor Humor & Entertainment Literary Literature & Fiction Short StoriesCustomer Reviews
5 ratings
Doggy dreams
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Arthur Bradford deftly walks the ledge of the mundane, tipping but not quite falling into a marshy terrain normally reserved for dreams. I love his style of mixed realism and the surreal, all delivered with a safe and unaffected deadpan tone. Many weeks later, little oddities from these stories are still skulking around my mind.Comparisons are difficult, but Richard Brautigan's "In Watermelon Sugar" and Denis Johnson's "Jesus' Son" come to mind.
What's He Writing In There?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I'm pretty sure that Tom Waits mated with a book and the result is Arthur Bradford. If I told you that the characters in Dogwalker live on the same block as The Eyeball Kid and Table Top Joe, and if you understood that, you should not only have read this book by now - you should be actively refusing to loan it out to relatives and friends without a security deposit. Each chapter in Dogwalker reads like the discovery of a new and fascinating insect; if that isn't praise, what is?
Great Book, by Gum!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This is a wonderul collection of stories. David Foster Wallace hits the nail on the head when he says that reading Bradford is like having lunch with the part of you that dreams at night. Strange things occur and exceedingly pleasant, non-neurotic first-person narrators react as you would in a dream: they note the odd situations they find themselves in but then move on (with wonderful results). It's like being able to slow your dreams down--not to mention remember them--and savor all the strange details. The writing is also blissfully clean. I noticed one of the comments above mentioned Bradford's sideburns. I saw a reading and let me tell you: his gums are not to be believed (let's pray he keeps his teeth). See a reading if you can, and enjoy the book, it's well worth a read.
confident, disturbing, handsome
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Whoa. I've been awaiting this collection for a while, having been tracking down individual stories for years and years. I mean, the many people of the polis have been aware of and devastated by catface and Alan Matthews for so long; it's just too much; but here we get new people to love and fear. Roslyn. Bill McQuill. Where does this all come from? It is beyond entertainment, it will bring new people into libraries and bookstores, it is really what we need, to read with smiles on our faces, coughing out laughter onto our shirtfronts. Some doubt Arthur's sideburns, and wonder if he's let himself go to seed; this is just not true. Buy it; read it; it'll make you happy.
I've already read it twice.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Excellent collection of stories. Very funny and, at times, sad.
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