So He Takes the Dog

by JonathanBuckley (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $4.31

  A stunning novel which examines our fears, prejudices and desires, from the author of 'Ghost MacIndoe' and 'Invisible'. On a beach in southern England, a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to a homeless eccentric named Henry, who has been wandering the south-west of England for the last thirty years. As the local policeman and his accomplice piece together Henry's movements prior to his death, talking to those who knew and watched him, they uncover an extraordinary life. And as the story of Henry's life becomes clearer, so the life of the narrator becomes more and more complex, in ways he could never have expected. 'So He Takes the Dog' is a detective story like no other, a novel that further confirms Jonathan Buckley as one of the finest writers at work in this country.

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  Paperback
  2006

  $6.85

  A stunning new novel from the author of 'Ghost MacIndoe' and 'Invisible'. In his previous two novels, Jonathan Buckley has brilliantly explored the workings of this country over the last few decades: in 'Ghost MacIndoe' he examined the extraordinary life of an ordinary man living in a London suburb; most recently, in 'Invisible', he showed us five disparate lives played out in a decaying hotel struggling to survive the BSE crisis. Now, in 'So He Takes the Dog', Buckley, in his best novel yet, unpicks the emotional subtleties, fears and prejudices and desires of the inhabitants of a town somewhere on the coast of the South of England in the aftermath of a brutal murder. A dog, out for a walk on the beach, returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to Henry, the homeless eccentric who has been wandering the south-west of England for the last thirty years, most recently living rough in the town. The local policeman and his accomplice, in piecing together his movements prior to his death, talking to those who knew and watched him, uncover an extraordinary life. But their investigations tellingly shed light on the town itself, and the story of Henry and those who tell it begins to affect the narrator-policeman's own life in ways he never expected. 'So He Takes the Dog' is a detective story like no other, a novel that further confirms Jonathan Buckley as one of the finest novelists in this country at work today.