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"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits itsform to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know."
- Su Shih
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322110
Release Date: Jan 1, 1992
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. This clear-eyed and wondering, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as one of the "greatest masterpieces of animal literature," is her biography, a work of faultless and respectful observation that transcends the seeming modesty of its subject. In telling the story of his beloved Tulip, Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships. This frank and often very funny account of the ways of dog and man was recently singled out by The New Yorker as "one of the bona-fide dog-lit classics."
| | | | From The Publisher
The distinguished British man of letters J.R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he found himself in possession of a German Shepherd, To his surprise she became the love of his life. My Dog Tulip looks back on their sixteen years together and tells in sometimes startling detail of Ackerley's fumbling but determined efforts to care for the animal he considered his ideal friend. This frank and often very funny account of the ways of dog and man is also a bittersweet reckoning with the limits of all relationships, a lament for the ultimate futility of even the deepest love.
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Didn't think I would but I did
-- A reviewer, August 25, 1999
For All German Shepherd Lovers
-- Jessica, March 26, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Sixteen years with a German shepherd named Tulip, recalled in loving detail, result in the best animal tale out of England. With an introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. "A masterpiece of empathy, this book is likely to be read again and again"—Gene Baro, New York Times
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