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So He Takes the Dog
by: Jonathan Buckley

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007228294
ISBN: 0007228295
Label: HarperPerennial
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
Publication Date: July 02, 2007
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
Sales Rank: 289566

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Editorial Review:

Daily Telegraph:
'...deeply involving and ultimately very moving.'

Arena:
'An intimately drawn and affecting detective story.'

Ulster Tatler:
'...Buckley tells a story that will continue to haunt you long after you have read the last pages.'

The Times Literary Supplement:
'Affecting, carefully crafted, quietly tumultuous. The elusiveness of our emotionally stunted sleuth is its greatest achievement.'

Sunday Business Post:
'This is a superbly understated story, one surprisingly difficult to shake off.'

The Observer:
'(A novel) about what it means to live in today's Britain...George Orwell would almost certainly have approved.'

Time Out:
'Intensely moving and haunting.'

Independent:
'Buckley’s style has a surprising humanity and patience that verges on the feminine...the result is brave, unsettling and brilliant.'

Synopsis:
A stunning novel which examines our fears, prejudices and desires, from the author of 'Ghost MacIndoe' and 'Invisible'. On a beach in southern England, a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to a homeless eccentric named Henry, who has been wandering the south-west of England for the last thirty years. As the local policeman and his accomplice piece together Henry's movements prior to his death, talking to those who knew and watched him, they uncover an extraordinary life. And as the story of Henry's life becomes clearer, so the life of the narrator becomes more and more complex, in ways he could never have expected. 'So He Takes the Dog' is a detective story like no other, a novel that further confirms Jonathan Buckley as one of the finest writers at work in this country.

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- Poetry in motion
This book made me smile from beginning to end. Normally I would expect the fact that it is more of an evolution than a story to bother me, but it didn't. The author paints a huge array of characters with great affection and attention to detail, affirming humanity in much of its wierd and wonderfulness, and exploring the intricate webs of relationships which make up one life. I can't do it justice, you have to read it, and enjoy!

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- So, she rates the dog
This is not a story about murder or supersleuthing, but a far greater investigation, a contemplation of existence and its complex destinations.

And that is why, with so much to "get" under the text of this novel, there may not be agreement about the effect. Readers in naked search of defined plot, exposition, denouement and explicit resolution may be frustrated, while those who relish a rich, witty, forensic meditation of the elusive human as cultured subject will possibly remain disturbed long after completing the read.

But, the brilliance of this novel is that like the very best literature, or art, or music, it can and should be appreciated at its most scant or profound.

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- Not a 'Who-dunnit', this story is a 'Who-was-it-done-to'
This is a detective story with a difference. Not a 'Who-dunnit', 'why-dunnit', or even a 'how-dunnit' the narrative of the Investigating Police Officer leads the reader through the stages of searching for the true identity of the victim: a 'who-was-it-done-to'!

The opening chapter sets the scene for the entrance of the narrator-detective with the discovery of a decomposing body on the beach of a (nameless) southern English coastal town. Although written in a different way from subsequent chapters, it still hints strongly at what the reader should expect throughout the rest of the book - keen observation of human nature and the emotional benefit and cost of relationships.

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