Book : Rin Tin Tin The Life And The Legend - Orlean, Susan

-Titulo Original : Rin Tin Tin The Life And The Legend

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Simon & Schuster

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From Susan Orlean-acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book-Rin Tin Tin is “an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog” (The Wall Street Journal).He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and a masterpiece (Chicago Tribune) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality. Review “Deeply moving . . . Unforgettable.” Wall Street Journal“A masterpiece.” Chicago Tribune“Magnificent.” Vanity Fair“Epic . . . Heartfelt . . . An enormously satisfying story about a dog and the man who believed in him.” -- Carol Memmott USA Today“Fascinating . . . Sweeping . . . Expertly told . . . [Orlean] may persuade even the most hardened skeptic that Rin Tin Tin belongs on Mount Rushmore with George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, or at least somewhere nearby with John Wayne and Seabiscuit.” -- Jennifer Schuessler The New York Times Book Review“A story of magnificent obsession. Nearly a decade in the making, combining worldwide research with personal connection, it offers the kind of satisfactions you only get when an impeccable writer gets hold of one heck of a story.” -- Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times“Stunning . . . Truly exceptional . . . A book so moving it melted the heart of at least this one dogged Lassie lover . . . . Calling Rin Tin Tin the story of a dog is like calling Moby-Dick the story of a whale.” -- Meredith Maran The Boston Globe“Susan Orlean has written a book about how an orphaned dog became part of millions of households, and hearts, in a way that may reveal the changing bonds between humans and animals, too. . . . One of the many pleasures of this book is the historical breadth of the story.” -- Scott Simon NPR’s Weekend Edition“An improbably fascinating tale of one of the first canine celebrities, the times that catapulted him to fame, and the legacy that endures.” People magazines Great Fall Reads“Brilliant . . . If there were any book she was born to write, its this one. The product of years of dogged research, its her magnum opus, a work filled with fascinating stories . . . [and] stunning prose that is both compassionate and perceptive.” -- Michael Schaub NPR“Engrossing . . . Delightful . . . Orlean finds much more to the story than a man and his dog . . . . Its heart lies in her exploration of how a dog could come to embody the ideal of heroic devotion and, eventually, exist as an icon outside the boundaries of time.” -- Douglass K. Daniel The Associated Press“Orlean relates the histories of the original Rin Tin Tin and his various successors with her customary eye for captivating detail.” Entertainment Weekly“Heartening . . . It’s a story that may surprise you. . . . Rin Tin Tin embodied the spirit of America.” -- Rita Braver CBS Sunday Morning“Rapturous . . . This dog’s eye history of Hollywood in the 1920s is exuberant and told with as much energy as love. . . . It is to be numbered among the best Hollywood biographies.” -- David Thomson The New Republic“Fascinating . . . Orlean’s deadpan sense of humor and ear for the odd and beguiling fact make it hard to put down the book. But there’s also something haunting about it, a sense of the brevity of life and fame. . . . Orlean’s writing is built to last. As individual as a fingerprint, or a face, it turns what could have been a footnote to history into a touching account of the way one life resonates with o