Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories

Brad Watson (University of Wyoming, Laramie)

Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories
Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Published
8 August 2003
Pages
144
ISBN
9780393321203

Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories

Brad Watson (University of Wyoming, Laramie)

Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. In each of these weird and wonderful stories (Boston Globe), Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves. Elegant and elegiac, beautifully pitched to the human ear, yet resoundingly felt in our animal hearts (New York Newsday), Watson’s vibrant prose captures the animal crannies of the human personality-yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, drawn to human connection but also to thoughtless abandon and savagery without judgment. Pinckney Benedict praises Watson’s writing as crisp as a morning in deer season, rife with spirited good humor and high intelligence, and Fred Chappell calls his stories strong and true to the place they come from. This powerful debut collection marks Brad Watson’s introduction into a distinguished [Southern] literary heritage, from Faulkner to Larry Brown to Barry Hannah to Richard Ford (The State, Columbia, South Carolina).

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