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The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an abused dog. Narrator and protagonist Marty Preston lives in the hills of Friendly, West Virginia.
Robert Anthony Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist, journalist, and college professor.. He was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, [2] which he did receive in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers.
A series of low-budget horror films was loosely based on the book. Watchers; Watchers II; Watchers III; Watchers Reborn; In the film adaptation Travis is a sixteen-year-old boy, and Nora is his mother. The Outsider is renamed OXCOM, and Vince Nasco is replaced by NSO agents searching for the monster.
It shared the 1975 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (split award). [1] [2] Dog Soldiers was named by Time magazine one of the 100 best English-language novels, 1923 to 2005. [3] The book was adapted into the 1978 film Who'll Stop the Rain starring Nick Nolte with a script co-written by Stone. [4]
The real Beautiful Joe was an Airedale-type dog. He was medium-sized, brown, and described as likely being part bull terrier and part fox terrier. He was also described as a mongrel, a cur, and a mutt. He was originally owned by a local Meaford man, who cruelly abused the dog to the point of near death, and even cut off his ears and tail ...
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Print, e-book: Pages: 224 pp. ISBN: ... The film was an adaptation of a 2009 short story by Lehane, "Animal Rescue". Novelizations. Novelization of The Drop ...