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008 960612s1997 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 96025017
020 $a0374189870 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)34943262
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050 00 $aPS3552.A436$bL58 1997
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100 1 $aBakis, Kirsten.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96058180
245 10 $aLives of the monster dogs /$cKirsten Bakis.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus & Giroux,$c1997.
263 $a9702
300 $ax, 291 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aHere is a first novel like no other: a spellbinding tale that both creates its own fully realized world perspective and provides an incisive look at the ways that humans and animals resemble each other.
520 8 $aA group of elegant monster dogs in top hats, tails, and bustle skirts become instant celebrities when they come to New York in 2008. Refugees from a town whose residents had been utterly isolated for a hundred years, the dogs retain the nineteenth-century Germanic culture of the humans who created them.
520 8 $aThey are wealthy and glamorous and seem to lead charmed lives - but they find adjusting to the modern world difficult, and when a young woman, Cleo Pira, befriends them, she discovers that a strange, incurable illness threatens them all with extinction.
520 8 $aWhen the dogs construct their dream home, a fantastic castle on the Lower East Side, and barricade themselves inside, Cleo finds herself one of the few human witnesses to a mad, lavish party that may prove to be the final act in the drama of the lives of the monster dogs.
650 0 $aDogs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102051
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3552.A436$iL58 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPS3552.A436$iL58 1997