Name: The Dog Who Conquered Loneliness: and other life lessons for the perplexed
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Author: Johnstone, Evan
ISBN: 9781925739602

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The Dog Who Conquered Loneliness: and other life lessons for the perplexed

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Physical Book

Author

Evan Johnstone

Publisher

Moshpit Publishing

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781925739602

Synopsis "The Dog Who Conquered Loneliness: and other life lessons for the perplexed"

The Dog Who Conquered Loneliness and other life-lessons for the perplexed is a collection of short stories about a variety of outsiders, human and animal. Some of the animals struggle to interpret the human behaviour they observe, while the others and the humans struggle to fit in to society by conducting inadvertently parodic attempts at living. Loneliness is a recurrent problem for the characters, as is aspiring to an amorphous 'more' to their lives. Their aspirations are not satirised, merely thwarted by quirks of their own personalities, the indifferent hand of fate, or the general absurdity of the human condition. They are far from rebels, but are not quite comfortable in themselves or in the world. In the world of these stories, a lonely dog achieves acceptance by excelling at hang-gliding, but is then carried across a distant range of mountains by freak winds and ends up lonely again; a lobster escapes from a tank in a Chinese restaurant but cannot find a fulfilling career; a mouse loves browsing in bookshops and deeply regrets his inability to read; and a sheep loses his mobile phone and immediately becomes invisible to the rest of the flock. The events that befall the characters may be absurd or fantastical, but these imaginative tales of misfits are united by striking images, an ironic and individual narrative voice and dark humour, presenting a satirical view of the world we live in.

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