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My dog Tulip / J.R. Ackerley ; introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
Van Pelt Library PR6001.C4 Z468 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967.
- Series:
- New York Review books (Series) ; no. 3.
- NYRB no.3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967.
- Ackerley, J. R.
- Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Dogs.
- German shepherd dog.
- Dog owners.
- Great Britain.
- Dog owners--Great Britain--Biography.
- German shepherd dog--Anecdotes.
- Dogs--Great Britain--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 190 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- The distinguished British man of letters J.R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he found himself in possession of a German Shepherd, To his surprise she became the love of his life. My Dog Tulip looks back on their sixteen years together and tells in sometimes startling detail of Ackerley's fumbling but determined efforts to care for the animal he considered his ideal friend. This frank and often very funny account of the ways of dog and man is also a bittersweet reckoning with the limits of all relationships, a lament for the ultimate futility of even the deepest love.
- Notes:
- "Number 3"--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 0940322110
- OCLC:
- 40954009
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