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A Dog's Life

✍ Scribed by Michael Holyrod

Book ID
110931394
Publisher
Quercus
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
141 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781681445229

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Eustace is the undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar familyβ€”that is, he would be if everyone left him alone so he could get on with things, like shaving, and finding his way downstairs.

It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he has made up for it and is now a faster motorist than ever he was a bowler. He is a good father too, and one day, when he wakes up from day-dreaming, his son Kenneth will thank him.

It is good that Anne sleeps with a whistle in her mouthβ€”how else could she terrify the burglars? As for Mathilda, she wold love to like her mother, but prefers going for long walks with the dog. But what will happen to them all if the dog dies?

The story is followed by a devastating postscript. Placing this eccentric family in isolation after two world wars and at the beginning of our aggressive financial culture, it turns comedy into tragedy. A Dog's Life marked a very personal addition to Michael Holroyd's remarkable career.

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