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Here 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.
A 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.
They 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.
When 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.
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Fiction, Dogs, Twenty-first century, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, fantasy, contemporaryPlaces
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Lives of the Monster Dogs: A Novel
2017, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Lives of the Monster Dogs: A Novel (FSG Classics)
May 09, 2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
paperback
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Lives of the monster dogs: a novel
1997, Warner Books
in English
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Lives of the monster dogs
1997, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
- 1st ed.
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Lives of the Monster Dogs: A Novel
Aug 01, 1997, Audio Literature, Brand: Audio Literature
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Lives of the Monster Dogs: A Novel
1997, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Hardcover
in English
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Originally published : London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.
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