Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir

Second-Hand (Hardcover)

Excellent condition

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx "Outside of a Dog" is the captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy, and a memoir of a reading self.

Tracing the formative role books have played in his life, Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye on these books and their authors as he does on himself.

The result is unique: a sustained, witty book dedicated to the proposition that we are what we read.

"Outside of A Dog" might be described as an intellectual biblio-memoir, except that the author regards the noun 'intellectual' as a term of abuse.