The Way of the Dog

"Stream-of-consciousness fiction with a satisfying emotional weight: another intriguing experiment in narrative voice from Savage."--"Kirkus Reviews" "[S]am Savage . . . Gave us a reworked excerpt of his fourth novel . . . If I'd had the novel three months earlier, I would have offered to make a special issue, or to run it as a serial."--Lorin Stein, Interview in "The Rumpus" "[An] elegiac, articulate tale."--"Publishers Weekly" "With paragraphs as rich as koans, this is as powerful a meditation on living life--and facing its end--as you are likely to read anytime soon."--"Booklist," starred review ""The Way of the Dog" is perhaps [Savage's] best novel yet . . . It's as if Savage has rolled Bukowski's Henry Chinaski, Ellison's Invisible Man and Dostoevsky's Underground Man into a more forgiving modern observer."--"Shelf Awareness" "Savage is going strong, and "The Way of the Dog" may be his best book yet."--"Shelf Awareness for Readers" "Savage . . . has created something of a late-life oeuvre examining the interior world of the end years of life . . . and once again we are treated to this writer's uniquely unflinching, painful yet beautiful examination of an aging, regretful intellectual and how a life story rarely has a logical ending that makes the beginning and middle parts make sense."--"The Star Tribune" ""The Way of the Dog" is a deeply felt meditation on the ability to find peace as we age and how our existential dread can be turned into something sublime and meaningful."--"Kansas City Star" "Savage's writing is full of wickedly off-beat humor while disquietingly delivering spot-on characters who represent the ails of America (and American fiction)."--"Hot Metal Bridge" ""The Way of the Dog" is Savage's most elegiac, tender novel to date . . . For this besieged but genuine artist and writer, grace arrives as a second chance to appreciate, in what time he has left, the fact that life--and art-