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Title: A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0-679-76267-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect light read
Comment: When I picked this book up because, hey, I like dogs, and I had also heard from my parents that Peter Mayle was a very entertaining author, I thought that it might be something to just use as a diversion, like one would a magazine. I was very impressed! In fact, contrary to the thoughts of another reviewer on here, I think this is my favorite book by Mayle. Perhaps it is because I'm a dog person that I like it so much, but I really felt that this book was touching and funny and everything I would want in a light read. I haven't been as able to get into Mayle's other works, but I was immediately immersed in this one.
On less subjective notes, Mayle's use of language is excellent and the structure of the book is very pleasing, particularly to those of us who don't mind a little anthropomorphic bits in our lives here and there. Don't fool yourself, if you are thinking this will take any extra time to read, in fact, the book just whizzes by so fast, I was certainly left wanting more when I finished. Also, if you're depressed, this book will make you smile when you don't even think you could.
Rating: 4
Summary: Funny and well written
Comment: Anyone who has read Mayle's non-fiction "Provence" books has already been introduced to his dog "Boy". However, A Dog's Life, goes into great detail into Boy's life--from birth to middle age (in dog years). It is well written and truly funny. If you're a dog lover like me, you'll find yourself chuckling and nodding in agreement throughout the book.
(Rosie, my Labrador, gives this book Five Biscuits!)
Rating: 5
Summary: a warm, witty, over-too-soon read
Comment: He did not have an auspicious start in life - his lineage was questionable, his father deserted him prior to his birth, and, after bursting into this hard scrabble world, he had to fight his 12 brothers and sisters for every dollop of milk.
Nonetheless, Boy, Peter Mayle's beloved canine, overcame these earthly vicissitudes to lead a very cushy life in the south of France. So delighted is Boy with the way things have turned out that he wants to tell us all about it, and he does in the rib tickling "A Dog's Life."
Now, Boy is no ordinary stray pooch who wins the hearts of an affluent couple. Boy is a manipulating, crafty, sly four-footed friend who twists his master and mistress around his begging paw.
Edward Koren's drawings bring this shaggy shyster to life as Boy shares his attempts to be dog-master of all he surveys, his romantic trysts, his run-in with arch enemy, Hepzibah, the house cat, and his disdain for Homo Sapiens, although they are necessary to toss him under the table tidbits.
Peter Mayle is in top form, delivering a warm, witty, over-too-soon read. I highly recommend it.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Old Dogs Remembered by Bud Johns, Eugene O'Neill, James Thurber, E.B. White, Molly Ivins, Tom Steinstra, John Updike, Stanley Bing, Albert Payson Terhune, Raymond Carver ISBN: 0912184124 Publisher: Synergistic Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: 97 Ways to Make Your Dog Smile by Jenny Langbehn, Pat Doyle ISBN: 0761129030 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Anything Considered : A Novel by Peter Mayle ISBN: 067976268X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0679731148 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Hotel Pastis : A Novel of Provence by PETER MAYLE ISBN: 0679751114 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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