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| The Company of Dogs: Twenty-One Stories by Contemporary Masters | 
| Author: Charles Barsotti
Creators: Michael J. Rosen, William Wegman
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
Category: Book
List Price: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1757092
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0883659662
EAN: 9780883659663
ASIN: 0883659662
Publication Date: August 1996
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Amazon.com Review
For more than 12,000 years dogs have been interacting with humankind on a domestic level, first tamed for purposes of labor. But the dog-human relationship goes much deeper than that, as illustrated in The Company of Dogs, a collection of fictional stories by many notable writers, including Amy Hempel, Antonya Nelson, and David Updike. Seeking to honor the "openhearted and inscrutable, the simple and complicated animal" that James Thurber so perfectly characterized some 50 years ago, the collected stories focus on our daily lives with dogs and the amazing array of complicated emotions that canines are able to elicit from unsuspecting humans. William Wegman's black-and-white photographs of his deadpan Weimaraners Man Ray, Fay Ray, and Batina grace the pages of this thoroughly enjoyable, tail-waggingly good book.
Product Description
Filled with humor, wry, and understanding, this collection of stories by an illustrious gathering of diverse, renowned writers reveals the fact that our dogs know us better than we know ourselves, accompanied by photographs of William Wegman's amazing Weimaraners.
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 Good dogs, excellent stories December 2, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When most writing about dogs is of the sappy "Chicken Soup" variety, this collection provides a welcome alternative. It manages to move the reader without resorting to cheap sentimentalism. I read it 9 years ago an still remember several stories that touched me--beautiful pieces of fiction that showed the writers' knowledge of their craft, of humanity and of life in the company of dogs . I don't know if it's still the case, but when the book was first published, a portion of profits went to dog rescue programs. That's real dog care.
 Company of Dogs February 10, 2002
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The only thing I liked about this book was the pictures of Wegmans beautiful Wiems and the cartoons. There were a couple of nice stories but as a whole the book was unmoving. These are not touching stories of lifelong companionship.... This book was quite a disappointment. At least some of my money spent helped needy animals.
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