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Lives of the Monster Dogs

Kirsten Bakis

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#2897 of 8,085 books · #704 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (1998).

A group of elegant monster dogs in top hats, tails, and bustle skirts become instant celebrities when they come to New York in 2008. Refugees from a town whose residents had been utterly isolated for a hundred years, the dogs retain the nineteenth-century Germanic culture of the humans who created them. They are wealthy and glamorous and seem to lead charmed lives - but they find adjusting to the modern world difficult, and when a young woman, Cleo Pira, befriends them, she discovers that a strange, incurable illness threatens them all with extinction. When the dogs construct their dream home, a fantastic castle on the Lower East Side, and barricade themselves inside, Cleo finds herself one of the few human witnesses to a mad, lavish party that may prove to be the final act in the drama of the lives of the monster dogs.

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Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
ISBN-13
9780374716479
Topics
Identity and othernessHuman-animal boundariesIsolation and extinction

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