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The Dog of the North (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593300695)
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Elizabeth McKenzie
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x* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction *
"I'm in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped pita in an old van held together by duct tape...the great miracle of McKenzie's writing... is how she manages to transform misery into gentle humor...darkly hilarious." --The Washington Post
"An addictive read with an ultimately hopeful core that recalls Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata, Richard Brautigan, and Miranda July" - Sanjena Sathian, author of Gold Diggers Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what's possible when all else fails. Elizabeth McKenzie, the National Book Award-nominated author of The Portable Veblen, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains, a pita, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother. What is "the Scintillator"? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? This slyly humorous, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life's curveballs, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most, we can be brought closer to our truest selves.
Author: Elizabeth McKenzie
ISBN-10: 0593300696
ISBN-13: 9780593300695
Publisher: Penguin Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.32w x 1.16d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 3
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2023
Booklist 02/15/2023 pg. 18
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2023
BookPage 03/01/2023
"I'm in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped pita in an old van held together by duct tape...the great miracle of McKenzie's writing... is how she manages to transform misery into gentle humor...darkly hilarious." --The Washington Post
"An addictive read with an ultimately hopeful core that recalls Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata, Richard Brautigan, and Miranda July" - Sanjena Sathian, author of Gold Diggers Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what's possible when all else fails. Elizabeth McKenzie, the National Book Award-nominated author of The Portable Veblen, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains, a pita, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother. What is "the Scintillator"? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? This slyly humorous, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life's curveballs, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most, we can be brought closer to our truest selves.
Author: Elizabeth McKenzie
ISBN-10: 0593300696
ISBN-13: 9780593300695
Publisher: Penguin Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.32w x 1.16d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 3
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2023
Booklist 02/15/2023 pg. 18
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2023
BookPage 03/01/2023
By Elizabeth McKenzie
xElizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize; a collection, Stop That Girl, shortlisted for The Story Prize; and the novel MacGregor Tells the World, a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and was recorded for NPR's Selected Shorts.
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