Author: Caroline Knapp
Translator: Jeong-a Ko
Publisher: Namucheoreom
287 pages | 210*145mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Following her bestselling memoir, Drinking: A Love Story, Knapp's
account of her "mutual and unambiguous and exceptionally private"
relationship with Lucille, a small German shepherd mix, illuminates
beautifully how the dog's unconditional love filled the gaping hole in
Knapp's emotional life after her parents died and she quit drinking.
Drawing on charming but alpha-tough anecdotes from her own experience
and those of her dog-loving friends (primarily single and female), Knapp
describes with affectionate amusement the great, often expensive lengths
to which owners go to insure that their pets are well trained and well
balanced. As a pup, Lucille goes with Knapp to obedience school for
education, to day care for baby-sitting and to play dates with other
dogs for recreation. They visit dog psychics and therapists to explain
mysterious, troubled behavior, and a canine behaviorist for a few weeks
of discipline. Throughout, Knapp has a canny nose for emotional detail:
"Living with a dog is like being followed around 24 hours a day by a
mute psychoanalyst," Knapp writes. "Feelings float up from inside and
attach themselves to the dog, who will not question their validity, or
hold up your behavior to scrutiny, or challenge your perceptions."
Lucille's arrival is followed by boyfriend Michael's departure, and
Knapp intelligently plumbs criticism from outside the dog world that she
and others "use their pets as surrogates, to retreat into the world of
animals in order to bypass more problematic and complex human
relationships." Anyone who loves dogs, and particularly prospective
first-time owners, will delight in this exploration of man's (or in this
case, woman's) best friend and of the "significant other" role a dog
often plays in a one-person household. First serial to Glamour.
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