Shakespeare's Dog: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

by Leon Rooke

Introduction by Shelagh Rogers

Published by: Dundurn Press

Imprint: Dundurn Press

Sales Date: 2003-08-04

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CA$22.95

Published: August 2003

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Imprint: Dundurn Press

Page Count: 224 Pages

Dimensions: 6.03 x 9.00

224 Pages, 6.03 x 9.00 x 0.55 in

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CA$22.95

ISBN: 9780887621277

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A tour de force of inventive wit Shakespeare’s Dog is the eccentric and high-spirited story of William Shakespeare and how he came to bed and wed Anne Hathaway.

Told from the point of view of the Bard’s dog, this astonishing novel of comic bliss, hailed as a triumph of language and an amusing delight.

Leon Rooke is an energetic and prolific storyteller whose writing is characterized by inventive language, experimental form and a wide range of engaging and often absurd characters with distinctive voices. He has written plays for radio and stage and produced numerous collections of short stories. It is his novels, however, that have received the most critical acclaim. Fat Woman (1980) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and won the Paperback Novel of the Year Award. Shakespeare's Dog won the Governor General's Award in 1983 and toured as a play as far afield as Barcelona and Edinburgh. A Good Baby was made into a feature film. Rooke founded the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2007, Rooke was invested into the Order of Canada. He lives in Toronto.

Shelagh Rogers is a veteran broadcast-journalist, currently host and co-producer of CBC Radio's The Next Chapter, devoted to writing in Canada. She is an honorary witness to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2016, she was awarded the inaugural Margaret Trudeau Award for Mental Health Advocacy. She holds honorary doctorates from eight Canadian universities and is Chancellor of the University of Victoria.

Shelagh is of Métis and Scottish ancestry. Her great-grandmother Edith Rogers was the first Michif woman, and the first woman, elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Edith was from Norway House, where David A. Robertson's family has deep roots.

A veritable find, a novel to thoroughly delight and amuse the most jaded of readers...it is lickerish, witty and full of panache. Publishers Weekly

A rollicking comic novel...a triumph of characterization and language. Toronto Star

Shakespeare's Dog is a breakthrough book. It's marvellously inventive, full of juicy delights. Globe and Mail

The most idiosyncratic and diverting of biographies of a man whose life stays shrouded in a lost quotidian...Leon Rooke's capacity for unusual kinds of empathy was already amply demonstrated in his last novel, Fat Woman. In Shakespeare's Dog he's put his talent to the test and passed triumphantly...a robust delight. Harper's

Exuberant...a triumph. Maclean's

Governor General's Award for Fiction

Shakespeare's Dog: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

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