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Title: My Dog Tulip (New York Review of Books Classics) by J. R. Ackerley ISBN: 0-940322-11-0 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I laughed--I cried
Comment: So much more than a book about a man and his dog--I laughed, I cried. I laughed more than I cried as the author's way with words grew on me. Several months ago I heard about this book and author for the first time. The book was out of print and I could not find a copy online. I stumbled upon this new edition while browsing online and am so glad that I "waited" for this new version. The book is very attractive and unusual and I enjoyed the introduction which is new too. I'm now reading another book in this same new collection about the author's life--My Father and Myself--it puts My Dog Tulip into a new perspective and I may have to re-read it and if I do, I think I might cry more than I laugh this time around. Although when I looked again at the cover I had a private laugh. I'd recommend this book to almost anyone of any age. Parental guidance perhaps for My Father and Myself.
Rating: 4
Summary: Something new
Comment: I admit I skimmed over, towards the end, some of Ackerley's agonized accounts of Tulip's heats. But I relished most of the book, and I am as grateful to the author as I am to any writer who does something authentically new and different, and does it well. This book should be read in conjunction with Ackerley's other books, especially "My Father and Myself." By itself "Tulip" may seem to be the document of a very strange man, but considered with Ackerley's whole output it comes to look like just the most groping and unflinchingly honest of Ackerley's remarkably free and honest writings. Frankly it's amazing that a book written more than 30 years ago, on a topic (the lives of animals) at the center of contemporary worry and action, should seem so advanced, and just so ... beyond the pale. And, of course, Ackerley's prose is faultless. Every serious reader should give this book a chance.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reviewers Trash Classic!!!
Comment: Who is Kerry Fried, and why is s/he reviewing this classic? I read this book several years ago. As a story of a female shepherd and her owner, it is brutally honest, to the detail. Ackerley as a dog person, seems so indulgent and feeble. While reading, one must be mindful that the events took place in the 40's and in Briton. Perhaps he never had a dog before, and knew no better. Pups, off leash adventures, pooping issues. As subject matter, who but another shepherd lover would care. Who but a post modern dog lover would be appalled at the old fashioned beliefs and attitudes. But, and this is critical, but, the language is beautiful, the sentiment expressed is pure. And the final chapter, and final paragraph, are exquisite. I feel the passing of her life from his own, his long life stretching out so far beyond her sweet existence within it. I love my dog Olk as dearly, and dread his eventual loss.
Nancy
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