Title: Last Days of the Dog-Men
Subtitle: Stories
First published: 1996
Description: In prose so precise and beautiful it makes a reader's hair stand on end, Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves. In each of these stories he captures the animal crannies of the human personality - yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, drawn to human connection but also to thoughtless abandon and savagery without judgment.

Ultimately, however, people are responsible where dogs are not: "I'm told in medieval times," the narrator of the title story tells us, "animals were regularly put on trial, with witnesses and testimony and so forth. But it is relatively rare today."
Subjects: Fiction, Human-animal relationships, Dog owners, Dogs, Manners and customs, West (u.s.), history, Fiction, short stories (single author), Dog owners, fiction
LC classification: PS3573.A8475 L37 1996