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You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend
You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend
New book answers the question of "what is my dog
thinking?" by putting words into a dog's mouth.
October 21, 2004
Like most of America, author Terry Bain loves dogs. But,
instead of just repeating the often-asked question “I wonder
what my dog is thinking,” Terry’s gone and put words into
the dog’s mouth. YOU ARE A DOG: Life Through the Eyes of Man’s
Best Friend (Harmony Books, Hardcover, November 2004) speaks
to the dog lover in all of us with an interpretation that
seems downright canine.
YOU ARE A DOG is a collection of witty vignettes that explore
every aspect of a dog’s life, from eating grass and ear washing
to kittens and neighbors. The musings are that much more hilarious
because they are told through the eyes of a dog--though in
the second person. Thus, YOU Are a Dog. Not only is Terry
Bain's book laugh-out-loud funny, his work seems to ask us
how much we actually understand about our dogs--and pets in
general--and how much of our relationships with them is lost
in translation. Here is some more of what to expect from YOU
ARE A DOG:
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The Vacuum - “The vacuum is evil. You bark. The
vacuum doesn’t appear to mind you barking but you bark
again. The vacuum wants to eat you and eat the sofa and
eat the children. You bark and scare the vacuum . . .
eventually the vacuum will give up and return to the hall
closet.”
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Post Bath - “What on earth is that smell? You
don’t want to ever smell that smell again but there is
that smell and you are almost positive that it is very
nearby, very close to where you are currently standing,
now running, trying to escape the smell. Oh. Is it coming
from you?”
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More Licking - “You suppose that licking will
get you clean, and you lick those parts of you that you
can and those parts of you that are necessary to be clean,
but that isn’t really why you are licking those places.
It just seems to be the thing you have to do when you
are laying near the chair and nobody is paying close attention
to you.”
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Rawhide Bone - “You will sit near She Who Gave
You the Rawhide Bone and chew on it until it is soft and
lovely. She Who Gave You the Rawhide Bone will eventually
take the rawhide bone and move it into the mudroom and
close the door. ‘This is disgusting,’ she says. You don’t
know what this means, but you feel she must be terribly
pleased with you.”
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The Pill - “You are not going to eat that. What
is it? It’s white. And so small. It can’t be food. There
is no edible food that is white. Except white bread. You
love white bread.”
YOU ARE A DOG is told with a straight face, however crookedly.
You will laugh. You will cry. You will lick dew from the grass.
TERRY BAIN (aka He Who Leaves the Seat Up So That You Might
Drink) wrote this book when he should have been throwing the
tennis ball. He is a freelance writer, book designer, and
teacher. He won an O. Henry Award for short fiction and was
named a Book Magazine Newcomer in 2003. He lives in a modest
pack in Spokane, Washington, that includes his wife, two children,
two dogs, and a cat.
For more information about the book, visit the official website:
http://youareadog.com/.
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