Art of racing in the rain novel5/13/2023 Strike two, the narrator-dog Enzo’s human companion, Denny, is a race car driver, so the racing theme-as suggested by the title-is not only an important metaphor, but also drives much of the book’s plot.Watching or reading about racing has never held any interest for me.Īs it turns out, there was no strike three. Other than in the hands of a master storyteller-Paul Auster in his compelling novel Timbuktu, or E.B.White in the enchanting Charlotte’s Web-such a species-overreaching device is prone to cloying pitfalls. Strike one, it is not only written in a dog’s voice, but the dog narrates the story in retrospect as he nears death. I must admit that when a review copy of the novel The Art of Racing in the Rain arrived on my desk, I wasn’t optimistic.
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