My Dog Tulip by Jr Ackerley

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My Dog Tulip by Jr Ackerley

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My Dog Tulip by Jr Ackerley

Heartwarming and profound, this account of one writer's relationship with his beloved German sheperd is a masterpiece of animal literature.

The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middleage, he came into possession of a German shepherd. Tohis surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, theideal friend he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound andsubtle meditation on the strangeness that lies at the heartof all relationships. In vivid and sometimes startling detail, Ackerley tells of Tulip's often erratic behavior and very canine tastes, and of his own fumbling but determinedefforts to ensure for her an existence of perfect happiness.

My Dog Tulip has been adapted to screen as a major animated feature film with a cast that includes the voices of Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini. It has been heralded as A stroke of genius by New York Magazine and The love story of the year by Vanity Fair.

My Dog Tulip was adapted into a major motion picture in 2010.

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J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Eliot Weinberger is the author of three collections of essays: Outside Stories, Works on Paper, and Karmic Traces. He is also the editor and translator of the Collected Poems of Octavio Paz and the Selected Non-fictions of Jorge Luis Borges.

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ISBN 13 9780940322110
ISBN 10 0940322110
Title My Dog Tulip
Author J R Ackerley
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published 1999-09-01
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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