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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 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 rapture: 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. --Claire Dederer
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In 1998, Louis de Bernieres?acclaimed author of Corelli?s Mandolin?came upon a bronze statue in a town on Australia?s northwestern coast and was immediately compelled to know more about ?Red Dog.? He did not have to go far: everyone for hundreds of miles in every direction seemed to have a story about Red Dog. He was a Red Cloud Kelpie, a breed of sheepdog known for its energy and cleverness. But Red Dog was a kind of ultra-Kelpie, energetic and clever enough for an entire breed in himself.
Dubbed a ?professional traveler? rather than a stray, Red Dog established his own transportation system, hitchhiking between far-flung towns and female dogs in cars whose engine noises he?d memorized and whose drivers he?d charmed. The call of the wild was matched by the call of the supper dish; Red Dog?s appetite was as legendary as his exploits. Everyone wanted to adopt him (one group of workers made him a member of their union), but Red Dog would be adopted by?or, more precisely, he would adopt?only one man: a bus driver whose love life quickly began to suffer and who never quite recovered from Red Dog?s relentlessly affectionate presence.
Independent, clever, sly, stubborn, courageous and foolhardy, impatient with boredom and the boring, Red Dog endeared himself to (almost) everyone who crossed his path. These funny, surprising, and touching stories of his life are certain to endear him to every reader.
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- PublisherAlfred A Knopf/Random Australia
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1740510852
- ISBN 13 9781740510851
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alan Baker (illustrator). First Edition. Ochre coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with single coloured drawings by Alan Baker. Black coloured boards with red coloured embossed drawing of a dog to the lower edge of the front panel; and, red coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by Alan Baker, with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. In 1998 the author was invited to the Perth literary Festival, and, as part of the arrangements he was invited to attend Karratha's first literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town, a long way from anywhere  let alone Perth. While he was there the author decided to explore, and, outside Dampier he found a bronze statue to Red Dog  an Australian kelpie. Louis thought this bore needed more investigation  and the book is the result of that investigation. Minor, and I do mean minor, rubbing of the book corners and backstrip corners. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Full Number Line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3 - 119, [1] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Alan Baker. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Animals & Birds; Dogs; Australia; Farming & Rural Life. ISBN: 1740510852. ISBN/EAN: 9781740510851. Inventory No: 0130190. Seller Inventory # 0130190
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F. Small 8vo hardcover 120pp illus. Very good / Very good+ d/w with slightly faded spine. Readers familiar with the epic sweep of Louis de Bernià res' previous novels, and especially his phenomenally successful Captain Corelli's Mandolin, might be shocked by this small volume of (literally) shaggy dog stories. But those who have enjoyed the humour of those same novels will appreciate this sleeker, slimline de Bernià res.nnIn 1998, de Bernià res visited the mining towns of Western Australia and stumbled across a bronze statue of Red Dog (1971-1979) outside Dampier. Inspired by this legendary canine, he made another visit, collecting the stories of his life and gently fictionalising them. We follow Red Dog, the itinerant, resourceful, if flatulent hero (. Seller Inventory # 63775
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1st Australian ed. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), single-colour drawings, some edgewear bottom edge cloth cover, jacket cover photo differs from stock photo. 119 pp. Australian novel by Louis de Bernieres, based on a famous red kelpie who lived in Dampier, Western Australia. 'Red Dog' has now become a star in a major motion picture. The author states that the stories are based upon what really happened to Red Dog, but the characters are invented, except John. The real Red Dog was born in 1971, and died in 1979. His bronze statue is just outside the town of Dampier. First Australian edition. Seller Inventory # 17443
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