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Even Dogs go Home to Die: A Memoir | 
 enlarge | Author: Linda St. John
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1938108
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060186313
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.2923092
EAN: 9780060186319
ASIN: 0060186313
Publication Date: August 1, 2001
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Condition: Book new. Dust jacket near perfect. Ships from San Francisco.
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A celebrated "outsider" artist, Linda St. John has written one of the most original, moving, funny, heartbreaking, and breathtaking memoirs of recent years. The narrative force of her voice is pitch perfect; at once precise and haunting.
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Couldn't put it down August 19, 2008
KY
Ms St. John's style of writing had me turning page after page wondering just what happened next. I would put the book down for a moment thinking I could just walk away and do the things that needed to be done. I was wrong. I found myself drawn back to Southern Illinois and the St. John family. It brought back memories of my own dysfunctional family. I highly recommend this book, not just for those that may have lived through a similar upbringing, but for anyone that wants a good read and a glimpse into how one woman overcame so much.
catptivating November 20, 2004
Pauline Scoggins (nashville, tn United States)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
haven't read it yet but can't wait. i actually saw on powells.com this book offered for $8.50 and no special order fee. just an fyi. look forward to an enchanting and engrossing read - it's been awhile...
sharp voice, great story teller December 4, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Linda St. John is a wonderful talent and tells her remarkable story of surviving a stark upbringing with wit and insight in the package of a really good read. The story moves along. Her characters are tremendously vivid and orginal.
Of Beatings and Beauty November 12, 2001
Laurie Seeman (West Nyack, New York United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The author has taken an artful look at her painful family
background in a way that is amazing. The sincerity and poignant detailing suggest that the author has not borrowed trouble to write about, but does in fact know it very intimately, and has used the power of creativity to rise above and even flourish.
No one can read this book and not be inspired to look with more colorful curiosity at any trouble in their life.
All people in Alcohol and abuse programs would take heart from reading this. This book suggests tools for taking a liberating apprach to life. A beautiful book of love and understanding.
Good readin' Bad spellin' September 23, 2001
D. P. Birkett (Suffern, NY USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Memoirs of a terrible childhood marred by poverty, alcoholism and abuse in Southern Illinois. Later on the abused children look after their dying father, a WWII veteran with a PhD, and seek his love. These terrible childhoods always make good stories when told by their survivors. The worse the childhood the better the story because we know that the writer survived to become a person who could write a book. It's always a question as to how much is true (I've heard that Frank McCourt's mother was a New York secretary) but this one could stand on its own as fiction. We're given a lot of jacket biography, and even a cover designed by the author, that form an intrinsic part of the story. I share the other reviewers' irritation with the apostrophes on the gerunds but I guess them white trash aint gonna mind that none.
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