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Article: Sit. Stay. Read. (Man at his best: wine).(Dog-Walker)(Review)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
- Author:
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YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WAKE UP from a dream thinking, "I'm a genius"? Your subconscious has figured out the answer to something important, but your waking self can't remember what. Dog-walker (Knopf, $20) reminds us how much smarter the back of the brain is than the front. The 12 stories (two of which first appeared in Esquire) in this funny and huge-hearted debut collection by Arthur Bradford possess all the mystery of fables but contain something that's vast and weird and almost beyond myth. And just as talking about your dreams renders them unrecognizable, it's equally difficult to try to categorize Bradford's stories. Each of these tales is ...
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