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Item Details
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TRAVELS WITH CASEY
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| By: |
Benoit Denizet-Lewis |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1439153566 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781439153567 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
22 July, 2014 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Synopsis: |
A New York Times bestseller and People "Book of the Week": This hilarious, charming road trip through canine-loving America is "essential reading for dog lovers and armchair travelers" (Library Journal, starred review)."I don't think my dog likes me very much," New York Times Magazine writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis confesses at the beginning of his cross-country journey with his nine-year-old Labrador-mix, Casey. Over the next four months, thirty-two states, and 13,000 miles in a rented motor home, Denizet-Lewis and his lovable, moody canine companion try-with humorous and touching results-to pay tribute to the most powerful interspecies bond there is, in the country with the highest rate of dog ownership in the world. On the way, Denizet-Lewis-"a master at effortlessly weaving bits of research into his narrative" (Los Angeles Times)-meets an irresistible cast of dogs and their dog-obsessed humans. Denizet-Lewis and Casey hang out with wolf-dogs in Appalachia, enter a dock-jumping competition in Florida, meet homeless teens and their dogs in Washington, sleep in a Beagle-shaped bed and breakfast in Idaho, and visit "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan in California. And then there are the really out there characters: pet psychics, dog-wielding hitchhikers, and two women who took their neighbor to court for allegedly failing to pick up her dog's poop. Denizet-Lewis's memoir "is a lot like Casey...fun, sweet, and a little neurotic" (Chicago Tribune)-a delightfully idiosyncratic blend of memoir and travelogue coupled with a sociological exploration of a dog-obsessed America. Travels With Casey is "a thoroughly engaging and often hilarious investigation of the therapeutic nature of our relationships with dogs" (Booklist). |
| Illustrations: |
one 8-pp color insert of 21 photos, front matter map; 10 b&w photos t-o; |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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