About this title: Heartwarming, hilarious, and utterly human, this book tells the tale of a group of eccentric antique dealers, who must face the task of cleaning up the mess they're in, after a violent storm strikes, wreaking havoc as well as causing fire, a heart attack, and grand theft.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 2000-02
ISBN-13:9780786223671ISBN:0786223677
Description: Good. Fast Shipping! This book is Good Condition. This is a previous library copy; it has the stamps and labels from the library. Spine has some wear. No missing pages. Some wear on edges and on cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684859460ISBN:0684859467
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Scribner, N. Y.
Date Published: 1999
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws......The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear.........The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed.... read more
"Whoa! Not quite sure how to comment about this novel? I wanted to read it mainly because of the title and figured it would have 'something' to do with dogs! Not to be, well, unless you count the strays hanging around underneath the house next door to Effie.
I think the author was attempting to be "quirky and original" but somehow lost his way. The characters were quite eccentric and the one I got the most kick out of was Effie. A 71-year-old snoopy, antique dealer who has had a store on Worth Row for many years. Her daily journal entries of everyone else's comings, goings and doings sound like an ongoing soap opera! These neighbourhood folks have more secrets than most any people I know.
However, as compelled as I was to finish this novel, it is certainly not high on my list of recommendations. I usually have a hard time giving a novel a 'low' rating but, this one has forced my hand!!"
"If I would have read this book before Beach Combing for a Shipwrecked God I don't know if I would have become an instant Joe Coomer fan. Apologizing to Dogs is good, but I think it suffers from a glut of characters. Instead of focusing on the stories of a compact, tight-knit group of characters (like Beach Combing) we are expected to follow the storylines of an entire neighborhood of people, pretty much all of which are antique dealers of one kind or another, which makes it even harder to keep straight who is who and why they act as they do. Lots of secrets, histories and inner turmoil in this neighborhood, too. Pared down to the stories of maybe half a dozen of these people, Dogs might have been fully successful. As it stands, it's a good read and I was even genuinely moved a time or two, but I'm still looking forward to the next Coomer book, hoping he'll pull off another genius work like Beach Combing."
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