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The Way of the Dog

von Sam Savage

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"Sam Savage [creates] some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. . . . Readers are left with a voice so strong that Savage is able to derive significance from these events by sheer literary force."??Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers

"Savage's skill is in creating complex first-person characters using nothing but their own voice."??Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times

"[Savage] creates one of the most intriguing stories??and one of the most vivid characters??that this reader has encountered this year."??The Writer

Sam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt.

Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in "the now."

Sam Savage is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, and Glass. A native of South Carolina, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He resides in Madison,… (mehr)

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Seemed interesting and unique at start, but the plot never seemed to progress to a conclusion, at least not one that I could readily discern. ( )
  ChetBowers | Mar 10, 2021 |
An aging man ruminates over his past and the changes of the present. In the process he attempts to come to grips with the "unbearable lightness of being". ( )
  snash | Jan 9, 2017 |
Harold Nivenson is a self-described “concealed minor artist” and a collector of paintings he now describes as “worthless daubings.” Near the end of his life he sits in his crumbling mansion, a neighborhood anachronism, and contemplates what could have been. In his waning years, Nivenson considers himself a failure, his downturn triggered by the death of his dog, Roy.

He’s a watchful, jaded observer of the human condition. To Harold, “even the most banal events and objects are steeped in mystery,” but “life is only reproduction and death.”

He occasionally describes himself as insane.

As a young man, he considered himself “A harsh critic of contemporary society, a penetrating social critic” but “I see now that I was just a chronic complainer.”

The Way of The Dog is an insightful story of aging and a life not fruitfully lived, and of a critic harsher on himself in the end than he has been on anyone else. ( )
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

"Sam Savage [creates] some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. . . . Readers are left with a voice so strong that Savage is able to derive significance from these events by sheer literary force."??Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers

"Savage's skill is in creating complex first-person characters using nothing but their own voice."??Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times

"[Savage] creates one of the most intriguing stories??and one of the most vivid characters??that this reader has encountered this year."??The Writer

Sam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt.

Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in "the now."

Sam Savage is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, and Glass. A native of South Carolina, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He resides in Madison,

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