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Jonathan unleashed by meg rosoff5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The dogs are correct in their perception that Jonathan’s life requires sorting. Sissy, meanwhile, is a sweet-natured spaniel who “looked yearningly into Jonathan’s face as if searching for the key to her future … I’m hungry, I need more love, we’re bored here all day, please turn over the reins of your life so we can sort you out.” Dante is a hyper-intelligent border collie living in a city where even the availability of liver cookies from specialist dog bakeries cannot disguise the fact that Manhattan is possibly the most inappropriate place on earth for a hyper-intelligent border collie to live. Rosoff animates these animals with a sense of personality that any dog-owner should recognise. They weren’t even his dogs.” Home is a sublet single-bed apartment in New York’s Lower East Side the dogs belong to Jonathan’s brother, who has flitted off to fulfil an engineering contract in Dubai. The book commences with one of Rosoff’s great, attention-grabbing opening lines: “Jonathan came home from work one day to find the dogs talking about him. At least, it is the first book in which the principal character has progressed beyond his teens though whether this means he has successfully completed his adolescence remains theoretical. What is more unexpected is that it should also be her first work of fiction aimed at an adult readership. It was always on the cards, therefore, that Rosoff – whose biography includes mention of two lurchers – would one day write a novel about dogs. ![]()
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