![]() ![]() Mikita Brottman offers an enlightening view to an often. Agent: Betsy Lerner, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. Hyena investigates this fascinating animal throughout history. Mikita Brottman, PhD, is an Oxford-educated scholar, author. Though this is certainly a book for a niche audience, avid dog lovers will relish the digressions into literature and history, as well as the assurance that the love between dog and human can be as deep as any other kind of love. Mikita Brottman, author of The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading. In her paeans to her pet, Brottman evokes the joys of dog ownership. ![]() These mini-profiles bleed into meditations on the eponymous Grisby, the author’s own French bulldog and the apple of her eye. Fictional dogs appear as well, like Jip, the naughty spaniel from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, as well as the dogs of authors such as Anton Chekhov and poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Dog luminaries include Señor Xolotl, the Mexican hairless dog of Frida Kahlo, who once peed on one of Diego Rivera’s watercolors Lump, a dachshund immortalized by Picasso Peritas, the so-called favorite dog of Alexander the Great. Examines the bond between human and dog in this “leisurely stroll” through the history of notable dogs and their owners. ![]()
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