Lives of the Monster Dogs

FSG Classics

Kirsten Bakis, Jeff VanderMeer

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English

Farrar Straus Giroux
09 May 2017

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Mythological Creatures, People & Places; Science; Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering; Cybernetics; Alternate Reality; Steampunk Sci-Fi

Series: FSG Classics

The twentieth anniversary of a postmodern classic, blending the gothic novel with bleeding-edge science fiction, by the author of King Nyx

After a century of cruel experimentation, a haunted race of genetically and biomechanically uplifted canines are created by the followers of a mad nineteenth-century Prussian surgeon. Possessing human intelligence, speaking human language, fitted with prosthetic hands, and walking upright on their hind legs, the monster dogs are intended to be super soldiers. Rebelling against their masters, however, and plundering the isolated village where they were created, the now wealthy dogs make their way to New York, where they befriend the young NYU student Cleo Pira and--acting like Victorian aristocrats--become reluctant celebrities.

Unable to reproduce, doomed to watch their race become extinct, the highly cultured dogs want no more than to live in peace and be accepted by contemporary society. Little do they suspect, however, that the real tragedy of their brief existence is only now beginning.

Told through a variety of documents--diaries, newspaper clippings, articles for Vanity Fair, and even a portion of an opera libretto--Kirsten Bakis's Lives of the Monster Dogs uses its science-fictional premise to launch a surprisingly emotional exploration of the great themes: love, death, and the limits of compassion. A contemporary classic, this edition features a new introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.

By: Kirsten Bakis
Introduction by: Jeff VanderMeer
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780374537142
ISBN 10: 0374537143
Series: FSG Classics
Publication Date: 09 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

<b>Kirsten Bakis</b> attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, and a Whiting Award. She is a resident faculty member at the Yale Writers Conference, teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, and is an editor at <i>Origins Journal</i>.

Reviews for Lives of the Monster Dogs (FSG Classics)

"""...20 years later, as it gets a much-deserved reissue, Lives of the Monster Dogs feels undeniably like a classic.... [it's] is an unforgettable meditation on both animals and humans, their deep entanglement, and the ways in which neither can, thus far, escape the methods of their genesis and their upbringing."" - The Atlantic"