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A tour de force of inventive wit, Shakespeare's Dog is the eccentric and high-spirited story of William Shakespeare and how he came to bed and wed Anne Hathaway. Told from the point of view of the Bards dog, this astonishing novel of comic bliss, hailed as a triumph of language and an amusing delight.Tags
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If you want to learn some Shakespearean-style cussing, this book narrated by Shakespeare's dog, Hooker, offers more than you will ever need. Some of the profanities are delivered with a familiar meter that will have you searching your mind for the original lines that might have been issued originally by the dog's master. Written in Elizabethan English this is ribald, rude and funny: but not for the faint-hearted.
Well. I don't remember the book very well, except that it was written from the point of view of Hooker, the dog. As it hasn't stuck much with me, I'll give it half a star for being Canlit, and pass on.
It is somewhat abut the play writing guy.
It is somewhat abut the play writing guy.
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Leon Rooke was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in 1934. He attended Mars Hill College and the University of North Carolina. In addition to writing novels and short stories, he is also an anthologist and a playwright. He is the recipient of many awards and honours including the Governor General's Fiction Award for "Shakespeare's Dog", the show more Canada-Australia Prize, the Paperback Novel of the Year Award for "Fat Woman", The Pushcart Prize and the North Carolina Award for Literature. He is the founder and artistic director of Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Rooke currently resides in Winnipeg. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Poetry, Historical Fiction
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3568 .O6 .S5 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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