Red Dog

English

ISBN: 0307368882

EAN: 9780307368881

Category: Fiction / Action & Adventure

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Release Date: 02/11/2011

Synopsis: No reader, regardless of age, will fail to be captivated by this charming story of a legendary dog, in Louis de Bernièegrave;res' Canadian publishing debut.

"In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way farther north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it.

"I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog.

"A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog." - Louis de Bernièegrave;res


From the Hardcover edition.

Red Dog

Illustrated: No

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