A Dog’s Life
Author: Peter Mayle
Boy, an uncannily shaggy canine of unknown origins, and now undisputed master of the Mayle household, recounts his event-filled life in Provence in this unique, rollicking memoir.,,A pure-bred paranoid labouring under delusions of grandeur, Boy is a character of rich intricacy. His journal – somewhere between Proust and Eeyore – contains apercus by Voltaire or Machiavelli ch….Read More
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