The Dog's Last Walk: (and Other Pieces)

by Howard Jacobson

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for The Dog's Last Walk

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

'The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement

Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal.

The shame and humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts and the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. And meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on and away...

The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom and iconoclasm for our uncertain times, and one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity.
  • ISBN10 1408845288
  • ISBN13 9781408845288
  • Publish Date 9 March 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English