Michelle de Kretser writes and sounds like a poet. The short pithy perfectly constructed lines in The Lost Dog, have great appeal. The opening two lines completely set the story up; not many books have ever achieved this. The book is worth buying for those two lines alone/5(21). So onto THE LOST DOG by Michelle de Krester. This tells the story of a man who loses his dog. He is in the middle of some kind of half hearted love affair, and we cut back and forth between the love affair and the hunt for the dog. This is one literary-ass book. It is /5. · The Lost Dog Michelle de Kretser is the author of three books, and her latest is a love story set in Australia. In this extract, Tom Loxley is holed up in Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
The Lost Dog Michelle de Kretser Chatto Windus £, pp. There is no feminine for "avuncular", but there ought to be. I want, in auntly fashion, to praise Michelle de Kretser for being. The Lost Dog ebook By Michelle de Kretser. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. The Lost Dog is a mystery and a love story, an exploration of art and nature, a meditation on ageing and the passage of time. It is a book of. The dog was standing still, one forepaw raised, listening. Tea-colored puddles sprawled on the track. A cockatoo flying up from a sapling dislodged a rhinestone spray.
De Kretser (The Hamilton Case) presents an intimate and subtle look at Tom Loxley, a well-intentioned but solipsistic Henry James scholar and childless divorcé, as he searches for his missing dog in the Australian bush. While the overarching story follows Tom's search during a little over a week in November , flashbacks reveal Tom's infatuation with Nelly Zhang, an artist tainted by scandal—from her controversial paintings to the disappearance and presumed murder of her husband, Felix. De Kretser is taking the same risk, facing the same shame, in refusing this modernist mastery. A novelist who uses a lonely man's affection for a dog as a major element of her story, whose empathy. Michelle de Kretser is a Sri Lankan who has lived in Australia for several years. She is the author of the novels The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, and The Lost Dog, and she is currently an associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney. Hometown: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Date of Birth.
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