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This is one of my wife's favorite books. Prior to having children, when we used to go used book shopping together, she would buy any copy of this she came across to gift to friends. Up until now I'd never read it (in my defense, she's read almost none of my favorite books, and I've read many of hers through the years, and will continue to do so).
Flush is a sweet little book, beautifully written, about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush (and, in the margins, it is also about EBB). It manages to capture the deep love (and also the depth of general emotion) felt by a dog for its "person"; also, it provides an ahuman perspective of human relationships, and brings a wisdom that is unexpected in a book about a dog.
A lovely book, well recommended to any and all dog lovers.
Flush is a sweet little book, beautifully written, about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush (and, in the margins, it is also about EBB). It manages to capture the deep love (and also the depth of general emotion) felt by a dog for its "person"; also, it provides an ahuman perspective of human relationships, and brings a wisdom that is unexpected in a book about a dog.
A lovely book, well recommended to any and all dog lovers.
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Apr 03, 2016 07:39PM
We all love animals...especially dogs. I think it's ingrained in our primordial genetic make up as well. I love canines in any story from Old Yeller to the Prince seies. Anyone remember that author?
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I was so tired after finishing 'The Waves' that I lay in the garden and read the Browning love letters, and the figure of the dog made me laugh so I couldn’t resist making him a Life. I wanted to play a joke on Lytton, Woolf wrote to a friend after finishing this book - she was referring to Lytton Strachey's Lives of Eminent Victorians series.
Yeah, I love that it operates both as incredibly well executed satire of that particular trend, while still managing to actually be a really well done, sentimental biography of a dog.The opening pages (with all the far-reaching history stuff) are particularly funny.
Thanks for review, good to know. I thought you might be interested in this link by Elizabeth Barrett Browning which I recently discovered (soonish I hope to read Sonnets From the Portuguese).I'm reading Virginia Woolf's novels in order, on the second one and will probably get round to this one, I'm, y'now, hoping next year.
