The Dog Of The World: A Novel

By S.E. Karsnick

'The Dog of the World' is a unique concept, masterfully executed. Midwest Book Review, December 2008; five stars to Amazon It was in the year of the dog when suicide topped cancer as the nationwide leading casualty. It came from the back of the pack, it was a dark horse in a season of stars, and it looked like it might be a photo-finish and finish it did many of the lives left floating in the wake of big endings. Economic endings, lifestyle endings, environmental endings and perhaps the thing was catching, and it was this magnet of multiple endings that was responsible for pulling people and old world institutions into their own endgame. This is a book. This is a book and this is the time to read about: Esther contemplating her navel and the navy blue of the Ever Deep and Jason yodeling to Hackensack and back from a dark pit of depression to come face to face with the love looking for him. As their stories intertwine . . . their tales wag the dog and turn self created endings into beginning yet again and . . . Each page of this stunning new work brings a fresh discovery of ordinary words in extraordinary play as we pay attention, as we work to understand the cause of widespread contemporary depression. This word revolution, this sparkling, loving solution cleans a space in the soul long enough to peek at something true, to poke a sleeping body from sleep walking to waking up. Finally, an uplifting book about depression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615202292
• ISBN13: 9780615202297
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Breathing River
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"