Memoir of a Park Avenue Basset Hound: How a South Jersey Hound Found True Love on the Upper East Side

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From a humble basset hound breeding farm in New Jersey to high-end Park Avenue domicile and beyond, author Peter Rowley serves up a charmingly picaresque view of the world as perceived thirteen inches off the ground by lovable, floppy-eared protagonist, Amelia. In Memoir of a Park Avenue Basset Hound, fate smiles upon this all-seeing pooch when she barely manages to slip into this world while tragically losing her mother and siblings. As she grows, no detail escapes her sad-eyed, sardonic scrutiny as she candidly shares cravings and passions, personal philosophy, and her yearning for four-legged companionship. And, of course, comes the day that Bo–an endearing male cockerpoo weighing all of six pounds–enters the life of sixty-five-pound Amelia, instantly triggering a seismic retilting of her universe.

Memoir of a Park Avenue Basset Hound narrates a delightful story about Amelia’s clear-eyed gaining of wisdom, her doting family, and her gratitude for a second chance at life in the never-a-dull-moment Rowley household. It offers a renewed insight and appreciation of man’s best friend. In this hilarious and touching memoir, Peter Rowley remains unquestionably one of the most surprisingly unsung writers amongst New York literati–and once again, he dazzles us.

• Armand Assante