Volume 56, Number 5 · March 26, 2009
A Great Dane Goes to the Dogs
By Stephen Greenblatt
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
Ecco, 566 pp., $25.95
My brother and I were never permitted to have pets of any kind, apart from a small turtle that I was given once on a trip to Florida and that my parents unaccountably allowed me to bring back home to Massachusetts. And even this modest and inoffensive creature, sloshing about in its bowl, was forced, on my mother's command, to spend its nights not in my bedroom but on the screened-in porch. I suppose that my mother feared that somehow, in the middle of the night, the captive would scale the walls of its glass enclosure and strangle us in our beds.
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