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Dog Logic: a novel
Title | Dog Logic: a novel |
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Date | 2024-11-26 09:10:31 |
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Desciption
Dog Logic: a novelBook of the Year Winner - Humor/Satire - Independent Author NetworkBook Of The Year Silver Winner - Science Fiction - Foreword INDIESBronze Winner - Literary Fiction - Readers' FavoriteHertell Daggett has just discovered a time capsule. Only this one is full of people, and they've been living beneath his pet cemetery since 1963 due to some bad information they got about the end of the world. Hertell leads the duck-and-cover civilization into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying modern world. What could possibly go wrong?Finalist - Contemporary Novel - National Indie Excellence Read more
Review
Editorial Reviews Review #1 Best Seller - Kindle "Satire"#1 Best Seller - Kindle "Literary Fiction"#1 Best Seller - Kindle "Humorous Dark Comedy" "a brilliant premise...delightfully comic...Alongside the comedy, the prose is sometimes reflective, sometimes poetic, with several moving passages - a gloriously inventive and original book" Rubery International Book Award Short List "Dog Logic by Tom Strelich is rather like life, harrowing in places, funny in others, occasionally uplifting and sometimes unutterably sad... this novel will evoke a wide range of emotions, from outright laughter to shock, indignation and everything in between. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope to see more novels from Mr Strelich in the future -- Readers' Favorite""Strelich has the dramatist's gift for dialogue, the poet's feel for space and time, and a prophet's vision of history's currents and human folly. Dog Logic is a mordant romp on the fault lines of American progress, at the pace of a drive-in movie. Strelich is a first-class American fabulist." -- Algernon D'Ammassa, Columnist, The Deming Headlight, Deming, New Mexico"Dog Logic is a thinking person's novel with a hahah funny bone and a jazz musicians sense of going left when you expect to be going right. Mr Strelich is a true original."-- Doug Warner, Artistic Director, Next Stage Repertory Theatre"... funny, clever, savvy and wildly unique. What takes place in the book will be memorable for a reader of the novel. It tells a tale that is special, cautionary, sometimes mind blowing, surprisingly emotional and current. There are a collection of unforgettable characters and experiences that make this a great ride." -- Steven Woolf, Artistic Director Repertory Theatre of St Louis"This book has everything a seasoned reader might desire: powerful, evocative characters worthy of Thomas McGuane, dialogue that is wise, wacky and wonderful, and a plot worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. This is a work for the ages-it is totally aware of where we've been, and it teases us with the mystery of where we might be going." --Dr. Robert Sanborn, Founder and Artistic Director Vertigo Theatre Factory"Smart as a whip and funny as hell -- Dog Logic is, firstoff, one of the most brilliant and entertaining books I've read in the last year, and I highly, highly recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor about their cultural unease. It's satirical, lyrical, touching, hilarious, and suspenseful at once." -- Amazon Customer Review From the Author I've always operated under the belief that you can't make up stuff any weirder than it really is. No need for magic wands or alien life forms or mystical powers, just characters, their circumstances, the events that overtake them and their responses, and all of it happening in a world just like the real one we live in, but not quite the same, a realistic, or at least recognizable world just like ours, only a little bit off to the side, and tilted at an odd angle -- fiction slightly askew. About the Author Strelich was born into a family of professional wrestlers and raised in Bakersfield, California. His plays include BAFO (Best and Final Offer), Dog Logic, which won a Kennedy Center Fund For New American Plays award for its New York premiere, and Neon Psalms, which won the Dramatists Guild/CBS New Play Award for its New York world premiere. Honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant for playwrights and commissions from South Coast Repertory and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Strelich has one screen credit, Out There (Showtime). For more information about Tom and his work, please visit his website at: https: //tomstrelich.com Read more