A Dog's Life: Top Dog and Dog Eat Dog

by Jerry Jay Carroll

A Dog's Top Dog and Dog Eat Carroll, Jerry A Dog's Top Dog and Dog Eat BOOK CLUB Book Club Edition. Published by Berkley, 1999. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.Seller 527166 Literature We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

490 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Jerry Jay Carroll is a former journalist nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize and the author of six novels, among them Top Dog, a NYT bestseller. Just out is End Times, an eschatological thriller about Good vs. Evil. Before that was another genre-bending roller-coaster ride called The Horror Writer about a wildly popular author Thom Hearn who who writes low-brow crap for the masses that get made into lucrative summer tent-pole splatter movies . Hearn is rich but the disdain of the literary world made him bitter. Then comes the invitation he gets with Wall Street whiz Carrie Alexander to a Davos-like conference of the high and mighty run by a charismatic man who can do anything better than anyone else. Hearn is the first to notice the weirdness but Carrie's not far behind. Then his fictional characters start showing up and that’s only the beginning. Who is running the show here, the charismatic director of the conference or some other manipulator? And why must everyone in the world die? Carroll was a feature writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle before moving with wife and son to Montana and, later, Oregon.

Reviews

[Linda Branham]

I loved the book. A man wakes up and discovers that he is a dog. And he finds himself in a world where he has to choose between good and evil.
I read the book a long time ago - but it is one that I have kept because I want to reread. On the inside cover it says

"One day, William B. Ingersoll sat in an office high above Wall Street conducting corporate takeovers.
The next day he was a big dog, surviving bu instinct alone in a strange new world.
Same difference"

Anyway, when he wakes up and finds that he is a dog, he enters a forest full of magic and monsters.
If I remember correctly he eventually goes back and forth between the two world of dogdom and peopledom :)
I MUST reread this!!!