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The Dogs of Babel

Carolyn Parkhurst

Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 17480 Users | 2203 Reviews

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Title	:	The Dogs of Babel
Author	:	Carolyn Parkhurst
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	June 7th 2004 by Back Bay Books (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Animals. Dogs

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Paul Iverson's life changes in an instant. He returns home one day to find that his wife, Lexy, has died under strange circumstances. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene - but too late. In the days and weeks that follow, Paul begins to notice strange "clues" in their home: books rearranged on their shelves, a mysterious phone call, and other suggestions that nothing about Lexy's last afternoon was quite what it seemed. Reeling from grief, Paul is determined to decipher this evidence and unlock the mystery of her death. But he can't do it alone; he needs Lorelei's help. A linguist by training, Paul embarks on an impossible endeavor: a series of experiments designed to teach Lorelei to communicate what she knows. Perhaps behind her wise and earnest eyes lies the key to what really happened to the woman he loved. As Paul's investigation leads him in unexpected and even perilous directions, he revisits the pivotal moments of his life with Lexy, the brilliant, enigmatic woman whose sparkling passion for life and dark, troubled past he embraced equally.

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Original Title:	The Dogs of Babel
ISBN:	0316778508 (ISBN13: 9780316778503)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Paul Iverson, Lorelei, Lexy Ransome

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After finishing this book, I went into such a funk. Had I seen a Hallmark commercial of any kind, I probably would have started bawling.However, this is not to say that this book isn't fantastic. It absolutely is. This book made me think and it touched me in an obvious way. This is a quite a different reaction from many of the other books I have read, which are often meaningless ways to pass some time.This is a story about an incredibly deep romance between two people. The two participants are

This book was NOT what I thought it would be. And that's a compliment.Paul's wife Lexy is dead. She fell out of an apple tree. The police have ruled it an accident. Paul is devastated. He's in mourning. Why was she in the apple tree anyway? Soon, he starts noticing strange circumstances surrounding her death. An empty frying pan on the floor and a steak missing. All their books have been rearranged. What does it mean?The only witness to Lexy's death is her dog, Lorelei, an 8-year-old Rhodesian

Yes, it's another mainstream bestseller which is actually sf. Slipstream, anyway.Paul's wife Lexy plummets from an apple tree in their yard and dies. There are mysterious circumstances surrounding her death, but the only witness is their dog Lorelei. As in this world, dogs have occasionally been taught to talk, Paul tries to teach Lorelei to talk in order to find out what happened to Lexy.Flashbacks to their nauseatingly cute courtship and marriage ensue. Lexy (lexicon, get it?) made masks.

Linguistics professor Paul Iverson comes home one day to find his wife, Lexy, lying dead below the apple tree. The only witness is his Rhodesian Ridgeback, Lorelei. Did Lexy fall from the tree or did she commit suicide? What was she even doing up in the apple tree? After the police rule it an accident, Paul sets out to try to teach Lorelei to speak so she can tell him what she witnessed that afternoon. During Paul's crusade to make Lorelei speak we see events from the past tell a story of how

The Dogs of Babel is a beautiful and tragic tale of love and loss. The slow revealing of the main couple's past is well woven and easily believeable. The completely crazy part was the talking dog theme that Carolyn Parkhurst overreached on... In the book, The main character (Paul Iverson), devastated by the loss of his dearly loved wife, makes a desperate attempt to make sense of her death by trying to teach his dog to talk. What at first is a poigniant and heart-rending (albeit futile)

This book, in a word, stinks. And now I shall tell you why. The main character marries a woman named Lexy. Lexy is terribly mysterious, and vibrant, and creative, and such and so on. Okay, whatever, she dies by falling out of an apple tree. Now that I have been browbeaten with the symbolism, let's go to a flashback so Parkhurst can work up some sympathy for this dead chick. By having her suggest that they take a spur of the moment trip to Disneyland! Which I hate! Which should be firebombed!

The writing style is sweet and sensitive, the emotion real, and the story compelling. Dr. Paul Iverson, professor of linguistics, comes home from work one night to find his yard filled with police. His wife, Lexy, has fallen from the apple tree in their yard and died. The death was declared an accident and Paul, was left alone to nurse his grief. In the days to follow, Paul notices some oddities around the house. Lorelei, the couples Rhodesian Ridgeback, was the only witness to the accident.