Dog

by Richard Russo

Narrator tells about campaign as a child to persuade parents to get him a dog. Unforeseen consequences have a negative impact.

Genres: Short Stories

8 pages, Unknown Binding

Published December 23, 1996

About the author

RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.

Reviews

[Catherine Mustread · Rating 3 out of 5]

Family power play has unintended negative consequences. Listened to this on Selected Shorts podcast. Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Select...