The way of the dog: a novel
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Coffee House Press : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781566893183 (electronic bk.) MWT11860363, 1566893186 (electronic bk.) 11860363
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Sam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt. Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in "the now."
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