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Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. In each of these "weird and wonderful stories" (Boston Globe), Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting…
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Last Days of the Dog Men by Brad Watson, another recently deceased, much-mourned (by me, anyway) writer, is a beautifully written collection of short stories that I revisit at least once a year just for the pure pleasure of rereading this southern writer’s tales.
Every story has its dog and yes, some of the dogs die, which ordinarily I find unforgiveable in fiction, people expiring in a book not bothering me nearly as much−and if that last resonates, this book is for you. Alas, dogs do die (but also, thankfully, live) in Watson’s imperfect world and he tells their stories…
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