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TALE OF A DOG

Name: TALE OF A DOG
Brand: Vanguard Books
SKU: 0811213951
Price: 1719.0 PKR
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FROM THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF A TEXAN BANKRUPTCY JUDGE BY LARS GUSTAFSSON

By LAR GUSTAFSSON , TOM GEDDES

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Description

The judge and protagonist of this roman noir is Erwin Caldwell. The year is 1992, and the rivers in and around rain-soaked Austin are flooding their banks. The life of the city is thrown into confusion, and Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for thirty years, has an affair with the owner of a small bookstore. His stepdaughter returns home after being denied tenure at Harvard, her little boy in tow, and Judge Caldwell learns of the death of drowning of the Dutch philosopher-semanticist Jan van de Rouwers, revered by a generation of Texas university students. Murder or suicide? Van de Rouwers has been discovered to have been not a World War II Resistance fighter as supposed, but a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite apologist. Caldwell, who is Jewish, ponders the disconcerting turns of history and life in Texas. And what does this all have to do with a dog? Thereby hangs the tale...

About the Author

Born in 1936, Lars Gustafsson is one of the Sweeden's Leadingmen of letters. He spends his time between his nativ Vasteras and Austin, where he teaches at the University of Texes. New Directions has previously published one book each of his poems and short stories and six of his novels, most recently A Tiler's Afternoon (1993).