

Fifteen Dogs
Author: André Alexis
Narrator: André Alexis
Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 03/15/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Author: André Alexis
Narrator: André Alexis
Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 03/15/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy
A doggone clever and moving book If animals were granted human intelligence, would they die happier or unhappier? That’s the intriguing question at the heart of André Alexis’s imaginative novel, the most recent winner of Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize. The gods Apollo and Hermes, dressed like hipst......more
If George Orwell decided to write his allegorical Animal Farm in 2015 instead of 1945, he might have come up with something like Fifteen Dogs. On second thought, scratch that. I don’t think anyone – not George Orwell, not Paul Auster with Timbuktu, not Jack London with Call of the Wild – could ever c......more
[4.5 Stars] Second Book of Alexis' Quincunx CANADA READS 2017 WINNER: CONGRATS TO ANDRÉ ALEXIS! In 2000, the Baha Men famously asked, “Who let the dogs out?” Little did they know that it would be over a decade before Andre Alexis would answer that question in his Giller Prize-winning novel Fifteen Dog......more
On the right is my dog Maya, talking to her friend Rocksy when we visited her family in Albuquerque. Rocksy and her people used to live in the apartment one floor below Maya and me in New York City. Rocksy's mom and I became very close, so we visited after they moved back to New Mexico. Maya died Jan......more
Strange that I don't want to write a review for this, because a review won't do it justice. If you're a dog lover, this book will wreck you, and I mean that in the best way possible. Astounding, heart breaking, and easily among the best books I've read this year.......more