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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9780811239967
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka.
The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with a schoolteacher telling a fable to her students. In the fable, a princess promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. The story takes an even stranger twist when that very dog appears to the schoolteacher in real life as a doglike man. A romantic -- and sexual -- courtship develops, much to the chagrin of her friends, who have suspicions about the man's identity.
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