Bone Dogs

by Roger Alan Skipper

Tuesday Price is a wiseass, a boozer, and a loser. Only his wife Linda recalls a smarter, better man, and she’s losing faith in that man’s return. When Tuesday befriends a strange, silent Vietnam vet who eternally sits with a cooler of beer in a disabled pickup, Linda’s had enough. At her departure, Tuesday is left with only his new friend as a companion—until the old vet is found dead, and Tuesday is blamed. Alone and haunted by regret, Tuesday’s daily life deteriorates until he must unearth his sordid past to reach a worthwhile future. But his past is a tangle of murder, deceit, and abandonment for which his only punishment has been self-inflicted. In order to reclaim all that has been lost, he returns to his deserted childhood home and, with hammer and nails, rebuilds the sagging structure, reassembling a history quite different than the one he’d believed while finding the future not at all what he’d expected.

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Malia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once you get into this book, the back and forth through Tuesdays life, keeps you rooting for him. The Mystery of
Yes, a different writing than I've seen. Gives you insight to an alcoholics' awefull life, hitting bottom, weird dreams/nightmares, struggles with others people, but Tuesdays life eventually finds an even keel, through his working it out...sort of. I like this book.
More like 4 and a half stars.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I almost gave up on this one after about 90 pages. I found the narrator not a particularly likable guy, at least initially...I'm really an escapist reader. But something kept me reading and I'm glad I did. It seems to me that this is about the possibility of redemption, should we choose to work toward it...and Tuesday does!

[Robin Mehaffey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favorite quotes from “Bone Dogs” by Roger Alan Skipper:
"She'd spent two minutes on her hair but not that particular day."
"Waste in haste, you'll want in leisure."
"Some conversations are like catching bobcats. It aint that hard to get one cornered but sometimes there's a measure of difficulty in turing it loose.”

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm befuddled how few people in the world have read (or at least rated/reviewed) this book. I don't like to write reviews as I'm not a very good writer, but I found this book interesting and unique and if nothing else just wanted to add to the number of reviews.

[Jennifer Haydon · Rating 5 out of 5]

i liked this book. the writing style was interestingly done. the main character was tough and endearing.

[Tam Dyer]

excellent writing - most creative and right-on similes i think i've ever read