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Original Title:	The Dogs of Babel
ISBN:	0316778508 (ISBN13: 9780316778503)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Paul Iverson, Lorelei, Lexy Ransome

The Dogs of Babel

Carolyn Parkhurst

Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 17480 Users | 2203 Reviews

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Paul Iverson's life changes in an instant. He returns home one day to find that his wife, Lexy, has died under strange circumstances. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene - but too late. In the days and weeks that follow, Paul begins to notice strange "clues" in their home: books rearranged on their shelves, a mysterious phone call, and other suggestions that nothing about Lexy's last afternoon was quite what it seemed. Reeling from grief, Paul is determined to decipher this evidence and unlock the mystery of her death. But he can't do it alone; he needs Lorelei's help. A linguist by training, Paul embarks on an impossible endeavor: a series of experiments designed to teach Lorelei to communicate what she knows. Perhaps behind her wise and earnest eyes lies the key to what really happened to the woman he loved. As Paul's investigation leads him in unexpected and even perilous directions, he revisits the pivotal moments of his life with Lexy, the brilliant, enigmatic woman whose sparkling passion for life and dark, troubled past he embraced equally.

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Title	:	The Dogs of Babel
Author	:	Carolyn Parkhurst
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	June 7th 2004 by Back Bay Books (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Animals. Dogs

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Ah, where do I begin reviewing this book? Let me start by saying that this book is not about what it's promoted to be. It's marketed as a book about a grieving widower who tries to teach his dog, the sole witness to his late wife's death, to talk. And yes, this book is about that, but it is not solely about that.This novel is an intense exploration of one man's profound and painful experience of grief - especially when it's over a mysterious death. Did she die accidentally or did she kill

Ah, where do I begin reviewing this book? Let me start by saying that this book is not about what it's promoted to be. It's marketed as a book about a grieving widower who tries to teach his dog, the sole witness to his late wife's death, to talk. And yes, this book is about that, but it is not solely about that.This novel is an intense exploration of one man's profound and painful experience of grief - especially when it's over a mysterious death. Did she die accidentally or did she kill

Yes, it's another mainstream bestseller which is actually sf. Slipstream, anyway.Paul's wife Lexy plummets from an apple tree in their yard and dies. There are mysterious circumstances surrounding her death, but the only witness is their dog Lorelei. As in this world, dogs have occasionally been taught to talk, Paul tries to teach Lorelei to talk in order to find out what happened to Lexy.Flashbacks to their nauseatingly cute courtship and marriage ensue. Lexy (lexicon, get it?) made masks.

After finishing this book, I went into such a funk. Had I seen a Hallmark commercial of any kind, I probably would have started bawling.However, this is not to say that this book isn't fantastic. It absolutely is. This book made me think and it touched me in an obvious way. This is a quite a different reaction from many of the other books I have read, which are often meaningless ways to pass some time.This is a story about an incredibly deep romance between two people. The two participants are

The Dogs of Babel is a beautiful and tragic tale of love and loss. The slow revealing of the main couple's past is well woven and easily believeable. The completely crazy part was the talking dog theme that Carolyn Parkhurst overreached on... In the book, The main character (Paul Iverson), devastated by the loss of his dearly loved wife, makes a desperate attempt to make sense of her death by trying to teach his dog to talk. What at first is a poigniant and heart-rending (albeit futile)

Funny, strange, sad, beautiful... I read some of the other reviews posted, and I didn't see a single one that mentioned the humor. Yes, the whole sci-fi flavored dog experiment thing in the middle of the book is bizarre and a little incongruous, but was nobody else laughing? What I enjoyed was the ridiculousness of Paul's quest to teach his dog to talk, juxtaposed against the beauty and sadness of the tragic love affair between him and his wife.

This is hands down my favorite novel, maybe not of all time, but definitely of anything I've read in the last few years (and that encompasses a fair amount of books). It is so moving and so well written. The language is beautiful. Every sentence made me think, "Damn. Wish I'd written that!" Very lovely, poetic, heartbreaking. I can't say enough good things about this book. Highly recommended. It's about a man's grief and attempts to learn what really happened after his wife's sudden death.