The Wrong Dog Dream
A True Romance
$27.36
- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2014
Summary
The author calls this “a true romance,” saying, it’s the part of her personal history she, being superstitious, was almost afraid to write. She’d 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. She’d more than survived, she’d even triumphed and had awakened into a kind of charmed splendor to find herself living in a white marble city with storybook castles, knowing famou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781619023178 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1619023172 |
| Author: | Jane Vandenburgh |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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“And now I love this book, too. Like everything Vandenburgh writes, The Wrong Dog Dream is profound, brilliant, honest, painful, gorgeous, precise and wild, funny and real. She only writes about what matters most: love, family, art, and survival. You don’t have to love dogs to enjoy this book, because it is about Life, which is to say, joy, loss, chaos, love, death–– and then those things all over again. It’s about her marriage, children, and grandchildren, and their pets; her childhood in a deeply crazy environment, and its pets, her life as an acclaimed artist, her loneliness, salvation in marriage, and pets. This book is about devastation, hope and victory, and it is beautifully written.” —Anne Lamott
About The Author
Jane Vandenburgh
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 dog.
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