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Red dog, Louis De Bernieres ; illustrated by Alan Baker

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Red dog

Louis De Bernieres ; illustrated by Alan Baker

Aust'n. Red Dog is a book by a writer in love. While passing through a town in the Australian outback, novelist Louis de Bernieres discovered a statue of a dog. Intrigued, he made inquiries, and was swamped by locals with tales of a wildly charismatic creature named Tally Ho. De Bernieres, author of Corelli's Mandolin, has fashioned a charming picaresque of Tally's misdeeds and misadventures, not least of which involve the animal's enormous appetite (complemented by an equally enormous flatulence). "Tally," he writes, "was the most notorious canine dustbin in the whole neighbourhood. With apparent relish he ate paper bags, sticks, dead rats, butterflies, apple peel, eggshells, used tissues and socks." De Bernieres' enchantment with this "dustbin" is a reflection of a larger rapture: here is a writer who has fallen for Australia itself. He wittily captures the country's cadences, its landscape, its weakness for the (literal) underdog

From Tally Ho to Red Dog -- The Stinker -- Red Dog Goes to Dampier -- Tally Ho at the Barbecue -- Red Dog Meets John -- Red Dog and Nancy Grey -- Nancy, Red Dog and John -- Red Dog and the Posh Pooches -- Red Dog's Expensive Injury -- Red Dog and the Woman from Perth -- Has Anyone Seen John? -- The Dog of the North-West -- Looking for John -- Red Dog and Red Cat -- Red Dog, Don and the Ranger -- Red Dog and the Dreaded Cribbages -- The Last Journey

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