The Difficulty of Being a Dog

The forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within The Difficulty of Being a Dog dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs. In doing so, Roger Grenier introduces us to dogs real and literary, famous and reviled — from Ulysses's Argos to Freud's Lün to the hundreds of dogs exiled from Constantinople in 1910 and deposited on a desert island — and gives us a sense of what makes our relationships with them so meaningful.

• Author
• Roger Grenier, Alice Kaplan

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 139

• Publisher
• University of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226308289

• Genres
• animals, france, dogs

• Release date
• 2002