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Paul Iverson, a linguistics professor, loses his beloved wife Lexy, who apparently slipped and fell to her death from an apple tree. The only witness? Their dog Lorelei, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback. He becomes obsessed with finding a breakthrough in language acquisition in dogs, so that Lorelei can tell him what happened.
It's his first person story, and I found it a convincing voice and compelling story I read in one sitting of less than four hours despite it being the usual novel-len ...more
It's his first person story, and I found it a convincing voice and compelling story I read in one sitting of less than four hours despite it being the usual novel-len ...more
This book was really sad. A man's wife dies falling out of a tree and no one was with her but the dog. The man decides to try to teach the dog to communicate so he can find out what happened to his wife. While he's trying to learn about animal communication he finds all the people who are doing cruel things to animals to "help them communicate."
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