false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452189m/3396.jpg 3396 14 <I>Red Dog</I> is a book by a writer in love. While passing through a town in the Australian outback, novelist Louis de Bernières discovered a statue of a dog. Intrigued, he made inquiries, and was swamped by locals with tales of a wildly charismatic creature named Tally Ho. De Bernières, author of <I>Corelli's Mandolin</I>, has fashioned a charming picaresque of Tally's misdeeds and misadventures, not least of which involve the animal's enormous appetite (complemented by an equally enormous flatulence). "Tally," he writes, "was the most notorious canine dustbin in the whole neighbourhood. With apparent relish he ate paper bags, sticks, dead rats, butterflies, apple peel, eggshells, used tissues and socks." De Bernières' enchantment with this "dustbin" is a reflection of a larger rapture: here is a writer who has fallen for Australia itself. He wittily captures the country's cadences, its landscape, its weakness for the (literal) underdog. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 3247806 1999 Red Dog total:151|5:34|4:53|3:46|2:16|1:2| 151 554 216 20 5 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jan 12 08:29:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:29:59 -0800 2009
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