Rin Tin Tin, Susan Orlean
Rin Tin Tin, Susan Orlean
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Rin Tin Tin
The Life and the Legend

Author: Susan Orlean

Narrator: Susan Orlean

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2011


Synopsis

From Susan Orlean—acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book—Rin Tin Tin is “an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog” (The Wall Street Journal).

He believed the dog was immortal.

So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and "a masterpiece" (Chicago Tribune) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality.

About Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library Book, Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and on Substack at SusanOrlean.Substack.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on October 21, 2020

Good book, good book, good. Snap on your flea collars, curl up in your cozy bed, wrap that bushy tail around yourself and park that muzzle on your paws. Susan Orlean has a remarkable tale to tell about an amazing pooch. Susan Orlean - image from The Mercantile Library For many of you the name Rin Ti......more

Goodreads review by Cherisa on September 28, 2023

I'm not quite sure why I would pick up a book about a WWI dog that transformed into a globally famous canine actor whose movies or TV show I never saw. All I can think is that loving Orlean's The Library Book may have given me the impulse. The biography of an animal born more than 100 years ago......more