![]() But Rosie’s end turns out not to be an ending and her afterlife is in playful hands. We read early on about Rosie’s last trip to the vet aged 15 (and her last supper: carne asada). The dog is Rosie – a stolid, black-and-white pit bull terrier chosen by Myles from a New York street litter. ![]() But Eileen Myles’s Afterglow belongs in a strange category of its own – it is unlike anything I have read and is a work of Joycean ambition in comparison with, say, John Grogan’s popular bestseller Marley and Me. ![]() Even Virginia Woolf wrote a book about a dog: Flush (which is also a semi-fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning although, admittedly, not one of her best). But some of the best memoirs I have read have been about dogs: JR Ackerley’s indispensable We Think the World of You soothed my broken heart as a teenager after a beloved dog had died, and Paul Bailey’s A Dog’s Life is a splendid memoir about the collie cross that took over his and his partner’s life. ![]() Y ou may think, at least if you are not a dog lover, that the dog memoir is for a niche, non-literary readership. ![]()
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