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Sleeping with Dogs: A Peripheral Autobiography
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Brian Sewell
Sleeping with Dogs is the record of one man's passionate affection for the dog, rooted in his early childhood and lasting undiminished into his dotage. These were for the most part dogs discarded and left to fate - tied to the railings of Kensington Gardens, found with a broken leg in the wilds of Turkey, adopted from an animal rescue home, passed on by the vet - but there
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If some of your best friends have four legs, a wagging tail, a language of woofs, growls, and yips---well, then this is the book for you. While a few cats enter into the story (and show the author to be a true friend of animals), this book is really for dog lovers (and I count myself firmly in that camp).
I knew nothing about this author, and you won't really find out much about him in this book. This slender volume (just 134 pages) sticks to telling you about every dog who has shared the author' ...more
I knew nothing about this author, and you won't really find out much about him in this book. This slender volume (just 134 pages) sticks to telling you about every dog who has shared the author' ...more
After two books in which he listed the (few) artists he admires and the (many) he despises, plus a blow-by-blowjob account of his busy sex life, 80-year-old art critic Brian Sewell now sets out to catalogue the dogs he has owned, from boyhood up to his present great age: usually two or three at a time. Some were pedigree animals, some were cross-breeds, a few were mongrels. Most were rescued from re-homing centres; one he brought back from Turkey.
This is a short book (130 pages), each chapter en ...more
This is a short book (130 pages), each chapter en ...more
Dec 19, 2013
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This is a little gem of a book. A profile of the mostly rescued dogs art historian and critic Brian Sewell lived with throughout his life. He's an engaging and thoughtful writer who evokes movingly his feelings about the dogs, particularly when they die, and the emotional turmoil he experiences when these tragic but inevitable times occur. My American friends most likely have never heard of Brian Sewell. In the UK he's a respected authority in art but whose views and the manner in which he expre
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Loved this. It is a short memoir of the writer's relationship with his various dogs. I howled when Winck died and am still feeling weepy a couple if hours later. Perfect Christmas present for dog lovers.
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Brian R Sewell (born 15 July 1931 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire) was an English art critic and media personality. He wrote for the London Evening Standard and was noted for his acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize. He was been described as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic".
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