Shakespeare's Dog: A Novel - Softcover

Rooke, Leon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880010932 ISBN 13: 9780880010931

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 1986

Synopsis

Will Shakespeare's dog, named Hooker, reports on the young poet and playwright's tumultuous Stratford household and on his and his master's shared and growing desire to be away to London

About this title

About the Author:

Leon Rooke is the author of seven novels, including Shakespeare's Dog which won the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Other major awards he has received include The W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, and the CBC Fiction Prize. He has published over 300 short stories, as well as poetry and plays, and is the founder of The Eden Mills Literary Festival.

In the early 1980's Shelagh Rogers joined CBC Radio in Ottawa. She moved to Toronto in 1984. For ten years, she was host of The Arts Tonight. In 1995 she became Deputy Host of Morningside. In September of 2000, Rogers began two years as host of CBC Radio's flagship current affairs program This Morning. Shelagh adds her voice to a number of causes including mental illness awareness, homelessness, homeless youth training. She has been a literacy volunteer for more than two decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0880010932
• ISBN 13: 9780880010931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 157