false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173354529m/276820.jpg 276820 1 <p>The anonymous narrator of this remarkable debut novel is a young drifter in search of his future. The son of a passionate beauty and gentle doctor, he roams the border between the United States and Mexico, eventually settling in a sleepy Baja town on the verge of transformation. Here he learns to stand face-to-face with dogs in a makeshift ring, to fight for money and fame, and becomes involved with a powerful and corrupt entrepreneur. But when he finds friendship with a revolutionary old poet and love with a beautiful, innocent girl, everything changes. Caught between the ways of his past and the dreams of his future, he must make a devastating choice that could cost him everything.</p> <p><b>The Dog Fighter</b> is an exhilarating tale of brutality and violence, love and wisdom, heartbreak and redemption.</p> 268453 2005 Dog Fighter, The: A Novel total:63|5:13|4:26|3:14|2:10|1:0| 63 231 85 10 4 0 false false Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 09 21:33:47 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 00:29:33 -0700 2009
This is just a precursor to what you are going to encounter with this book... as it bares you...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Nov 02 00:51:13 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 00:52:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 08:12:49 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 08:24:46 -0800 2007 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 07 23:02:05 -0700 2007 Sat May 12 00:48:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 true false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 17:51:55 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 18:29:24 -0700 2008
For a first novel, this is brilliant. The story takes a lot of interesting turns. A lot of people have griped that the protagonist doesn't really evolve, doesn't "...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 10 21:12:29 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 20:22:15 -0700 2008 The Dog Fighter (Perennial, 2004) takes some getting used to. In a counterintuitive move, Marc Bojanowski’s debut novel contains the bare minimum as far as punctuation is concerned. You will find no quotation marks, commas, dashes, colons, semicolons, ellipsis, or any other helpful forms of punctu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 01:13:41 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 22:38:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 22 11:23:49 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 11:33:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Apr 30 15:50:44 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 15:59:11 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jun 09 13:07:23 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 13:08:24 -0700 2008 Not bad, picked it up on a whim. Funny how books can turn into a love story of sorts. So it goes.]]> 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 12:59:39 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 12:59:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 23:11:58 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 23:11:58 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Oct 23 15:40:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 15:40:21 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Nov 08 06:00:50 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 19 06:27:34 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 06:27:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 16:30:39 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 16:30:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 20:27:49 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 20:27:49 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 10:48:41 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 10:48:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 22:00:18 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 22:00:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 21:30:07 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 21:30:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 21:22:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 21:22:42 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=276820