Reading Abigail Thomas’ A Three Dog Life, I expected to follow along as she retold her husband’s tragedy and how she dealt with it. Instead I found I lost the trail of her story’s sequence at points, or found it circling back on itself. There were gaps of time unaccounted for, and others told multiple [...]
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Adopting A Three Dog Life – Maggie L
Posted in A Three Dog Life, chronology, voice, tagged dogs, knitting, memory on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
a three dog life: choices about staying in one place in time. also: did we need the dogs?
Posted in A Three Dog Life, tagged action, dogs, plot, tension on February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dear Homies in 226,
some words that come to mind for A Three Dog Life :
little windows into a world.
deep and cutesy.
picaresque.
did I need the damn dogs?
the center doesn’t hold
Some expanded notes on these words:
Little windows: It wasn’t until page 92, when Thomas writes, “For now, he will look at the paper and I will look [...]
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