The Dog Park: A Collection of Stories With a Common Cast of Characters - Tapa blanda

The Dog Park is a book of eleven short stories that share a magical dog park as a setting. There people and their canine companions deal with betrayal and redemption, mathematical odds, illicit love, and more. Example: In "Embodiment," interspecies boundaries blur between Argus, a stray German shepherd, and Cara Rosetti, who is in despair over a break-up and her dog's death.

About Ann Elwood Ann Elwood lives in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, with six cats, a desert tortoise, seven box turtles, and a German Shepherd, Louie, who looks like Rin Tin Tin. She graduated with a degree in English literature from Fairleigh Dickinson College, New Jersey, then, after brief career as an elementary school teacher, made her living a as a writer, mostly freelance, based primarily in New York City. In 1967, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was advertising manager for a publishing company. In 1972, she returned to free-lancing . A desire to delve more deeply into ideas finally drove her to graduate school in 1981. She was awarded a Ph.D in history in 1989; her dissertation focused on an order of 17th and 18th century French nuns. Now, she teaches part-time and write the books she has always wanted to write but never had the time for. In addition to The Dog Park, she has written a biography of the first Rin Tin Tin, who was a star in silent movies.