Running the Dogs

Thomas Cochran

ISBN 10: 0374363609 / ISBN 13: 9780374363604

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007

About this Item

From a mesmerizing new literary voice comes a story of obsessive friendship, chilling powers, and untimely death for readers of dark academia classics like If We Were Villains and The Secret History.An unnamed narrator arrives at Cambridge University in the early aughts determined to reinvent himself. His northern accent marks him as an outsider, but thanks to his musical gifts, he manages to fall in with his wealthy classmate, Bryn Cavendish.A charismatic party host and talented magician, Bryn enthralls the narrator. But something seems to happen to those who challenge or simply irk Bryn--and they aren't ever the same again.The narrator begins to suspect that Bryn may be concealing terrifying gifts under the guise of magic tricks. As the tension between them grows, a harrowing encounter is followed by Bryn's death. Alternating between their time as students and the narrator's return to Cambridge years later, where he fears the ghosts of his past are waiting for him, And He Shall Appear performs an astounding slight-of-hand that throws every version of the story into question.This propulsive novel about the dark power of privilege will haunt readers like a familiar piece of music with endless iterations.

Seller Inventory # CIN0374363609VG

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Running the Dogs
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374363609
• ISBN 13: 9780374363604
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Talmidge Cotton's daddy is the kind of person who believes Christmas presents are for Christmas, not two days before. So on the day before Christmas Eve, Tal still isn't sure he'll get what he wants most: the chance to run his three beagles in the woods at night all by himself. That afternoon it begins to snow, an almost unheard-of occurrence in Louisiana. Tal is excited by the strange and wonderful weather and the prospect of his first white Christmas, but then his dogs disappear into the gathering storm. The next morning, they still aren't home. Even worse, the snow and ice have trapped his father in the southern part of the state, and it doesn't look like he'll make it home anytime soon. With Daddy and the dogs gone, everything seems wrong, and it sure doesn't feel like Christmas Eve . . .
 
In this heartwarming novel, a boy learns that even though life doesn't always follow your plans, things still sometimes turn out in a way that makes you glad to be in this world.

About the Author

THOMAS COCHRAN is the author of Roughnecks. He lives in West Fork, Arkansas.