Fifteen Dogs, Andre Alexis
Fifteen Dogs, Andre Alexis
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Fifteen Dogs

Author: André Alexis

Narrator: André Alexis

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/15/2016


Synopsis

— I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.— I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo, that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are, if they were given human intelligence.And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.André Alexis's contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on January 16, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Jill on December 16, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Matt on March 31, 2017

[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

Goodreads review by Betsy on April 09, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Andrew on November 10, 2015

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