Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
Red Dog is a book by a writer in love. While passing through a town in the Australian outback, novelist Louis de Bernières discovered a statue of a dog. Intrigued, he made inquiries, and was swamped by locals with tales of a wildly charismatic creature named Tally Ho.
De Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, has fashioned a charming picaresque of Tally's misdeeds and misadventures, not least of which involve the animal's enormous appetite (complemented by an equally enormous flatulence). "Tally," he writes, "was the most notorious canine dustbin in the whole neighbourhood. With apparent relish he ate paper bags, sticks, dead rats, butterflies, apple peel, eggshells, used tissues and socks."
De Bernières' enchantment with this "dustbin" is a reflection of a larger here is a writer who has fallen for Australia itself. He wittily captures the country's cadences, its landscape, its weakness for the (literal) underdog.
Format: Hardback | 128 pages
Dimensions (cm): 18.2 x 13 x 1.8 | 306g
Publication Date: Sep 11 2001
Publisher: Random House Australia
Imprint: Knopf
Publication City/Country: Milsons Point, Australia
Language: English
Illustrations note: colour illustrations
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1740510852
ISBN13: 9781740510851
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. No obvious damage to the cover. The dust jacket is included and in a very good condition (very minor - barely visible - scuff marks along the edges). The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing. No pencil underlining of text, and no highlighting of text. The first page in the book has been inscribed with a message and signed, but no other writing in margins anywhere else in the book. No missing pages.