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Schine, Cathleen.
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Dog owners -- Fiction.
Dog walking -- Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Schine, Cathleen.
Dog owners -- Fiction.
Dog walking -- Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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The
New
Yorkers
/ Cathleen Schine ; with drawings by Leanne Shapton.
by
Schine, Cathleen.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2007.
Call #:
FICTION SCH
Subjects
Dog owners -- Fiction.
Dog walking -- Fiction.
Manhattan (
New
York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374221836 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0374221839 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Sarah Crichton Books."
Summary:
"Cathleen Schine’s brilliantly funny
new
novel revolves around one city block in Manhattan, a quiet little block near Central Park kept humble by rent control. Living on a street like this in
New
York with a dog is like living in a tiny village, one that has a rhythm all its own. Dogs bring people together unexpectedly, people who would otherwise never meet. And the dogs act as cupids for the quiet, struggling, sometimes lonely, eccentric people, the old and the young, male and female; the people who live on the block, who are, in their ways, romantics, as all
New
Yorkers
secretly tend to be. Walking her dog, Beatrice, Jody falls under the spell of Everett’s bewitching smile. Everett begins to appreciate his post-divorce life only when he falls in love with Howdy, Polly’s puppy. Polly lives with her brother, George, and wants him to fall in love. George isn’t so much looking for a love life as for life direction, and Howdy leads him right to it. Doris hates the trash on her block, she hates the pee on her SUV’s large tires, and, above all, she hates dogs. That is, until she gets one of her own. In The
New
Yorkers
, as in life, canine companions compel their masters to go outside of themselves, to take part in the community they live in, to make friends, and, sometimes, to fall in love. And Schine returns to what she does best: crafting a compulsively readable, elegantly written novel that seduces in the way we were once seduced by The Love Letter, Schine’s beloved classic."--Publisher.
Genre:
Humorous fiction.
Love stories.
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