The Tale of a Dog: Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811213950)

The judge and protagonist of this roman noir is Erwin Caldwell. The year is 1992, and the rivers in and around rain-soaked Austin are flooding their banks. The life of the city is thrown into confusion, and Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for thirty years, has an affair with the owner of a small bookstore. His stepdaughter returns home after being denied tenure at Harvard, her little boy in tow, and Judge Caldwell learns of the death of drowning of the Dutch philosopher-semanticist Jan van de Rouwers, revered by a generation of Texas university students. Murder or suicide? Van de Rouwers has been discovered to have been not a World War II Resistance fighter as supposed, but a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite apologist. Caldwell, who is Jewish, ponders the disconcerting turns of history and life in Texas. And what does this all have to do with a dog? Thereby hangs the tale...

Author: Tom Geddes, Lars Gustafsson
ISBN-10: 0811213951
ISBN-13: 9780811213950
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1999
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.21w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/14/1998 pg. 57
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/1999 pg. 328
New York Times 04/04/1999 pg. 17