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The Color of A Dog Running Away

The Color of A Dog Running Away

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The Color of A Dog Running Away

by Gwyn, Richard

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ISBN 10
0385518552
ISBN 13
9780385518550
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New York: Doubleday, 2007. B6 - An advance reading copy paperback book in very good condition that has light tanning and shelf wear. A mysterious postcard arrives with a cryptic invitation to a Barcelona Art Gallery and a man finds himself drawn into a series of bizarre adventures and strange encounters in the mesmerizing debut novel. A love story, tale of adventure, historical thriller, and evocative tour of Barcelona, The Color of A Dog Running Away is a dazzling blend of the surreal and the ordinary, a novel that beguiles and disturbs in equal measure. 9.25"x6.25", 309 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Lucas, a musician and translator living in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, comes home one day to find a cryptic invitation to a local art gallery slipped under his door. When he appears at the appointed time, he sets in motion a series of improbable, seemingly interconnected events that disrupt his previously passive existence. He meets the alluring Nuria and they begin an intense love affair. He is approached by a band of Barcelona's mythic roof dwellers and has a run-in with a fire-eating prophet. But when he and Nuria are kidnapped by a religious cult with roots stretching back to the thirteenth century, Lucas realizes that his life is spinning out of control. The cult's megalomaniac leader, Ponteuf, maintains that Nuria and Lucas are essential to his plan to revive the religion. While Nuria is surprisingly open to Ponteuf and his theories, Lucas is outraged and makes his escape. Back in Barcelona, Lucas wanders the streets in a drug-and-alcohol-induced haze, pining for Nuria and struggling to make sense of what happened to him. He recounts his improbable adventures to his friends, who are wholly entertained by the story and deeply doubtful of its truth, a skepticism that is exacerbated by Lucas's tendency to use the third person and flaunt different narrative styles. . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

Synopsis

Richard Gwyn , in addition to being a poet, writer and translator, teaches creative writing at Cardiff University. This is his first novel.

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Title
The Color of A Dog Running Away
Author
Gwyn, Richard
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket as Issued
ISBN 10
0385518552
ISBN 13
9780385518550
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2007
Keywords
FICTION MYSTERY DECTIVE ADVANCE READING COPY ARC
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction: Mystery / Authors F-J;
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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