Pam Houston
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.97 | 1717 Users | 274 Reviews
Details About Books Sight Hound
| Title | : | Sight Hound |
| Author | : | Pam Houston |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | January 17th 2005 by W. W. Norton Company (first published September 22nd 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Animals. Dogs. Novels |
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This is the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the dog has always known this). Dante is the catalyst for change in other characters as well, and they step forward with their narratives: Rae's house-tender; her therapist; two veterinarians; and an anxiety-ridden actor, Howard, who turns out to be as stalwart as Dante himself. As the "seer" who hunts by sight rather than smell, Dante has some things to add, as does Rose, another dog who lives at Rae's heels, and Stanley the cat. Among and above these myriad voices, Rae voices her own challenges. With the wit and dead-on candor we've come to expect from Pam Houston, Sight Hound unfolds a story that illuminates the intangible covenant between loved ones. Here, dogs and humans are simply equal creatures, looking to connect and holding on for dear life when they do.List Books As Sight Hound
| Original Title: | Sight Hound |
| ISBN: | 0393058174 (ISBN13: 9780393058178) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books Sight Hound
Ratings: 3.97 From 1717 Users | 274 ReviewsAppraise About Books Sight Hound
If you love dogs, this book will make you sob. I have recently said out loud, "My dog is teaching me how to live." Pam Houston has created an entire book on this theme.I picked up this book for two reasons. One, I am a Pam Houston fan ever since I read Cowboys are My Weakness. Two, our beloved dog just had his leg amputated due to cancer and this story features a dog under similar circumstances. The story lived up to expectations. Houston is a lyrical and heartfelt writer who creates characters that are easy to relate to. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character including the dogs. It did get a little confusing figuring out who was
This is Pam Houston's first novel (she has done short stories) and it was published in 2005. Perhaps it is because I have read "Marley and Me" and "The Art of Racing in the Rain" both of which told a story from the dog's point of view, that I found this uninspiring. Been there, read that. The format is a bit unusual. The novel is divided into sections, each with a chapter narrated by a different character. Those characters include Rae (typical Pam Houston female, this time a playwright) her
One of my favorite authors, but not really my favorite book. Glad shes still writing, though.
Best summed up by Dante, the Irish Wolfhound - "I wanted her to see that sometime, no matter what we do, the good thing happens anyway....I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we ever get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves. After all, aren't we all just trying to learn the same things here, about sharing the food
I picked this up because I like Houston's short stories, and the premise intrigued me. But it didn't work for me for three main reasons. First, there isn't enough story here to absorb me. Rae finds a boyfriend and presumably a life, through the careful prodding of her dog Dante who is dying of cancer, but - what I suppose is intended to be the climax is just sort of laughable. There's no clear temptation, no feeling that maybe Rae would go in a different way than she ultimately does. Second,
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