Dogs Dreams and Men Author:Joan Kaufman This wise and wonderful first novel is reminiscent of the early Colette. It has Colette's sculpted precision of language, her breadth of feeling and philosophical resonance, and it deals directly with animals as animating presences, as Colette's work often does - specifically with dogs, and the way in which dogs often draw their "masters" into r... more »elationships. It is a novel of the city, ruled by Manhattan, yet in the wealth of its acutely observed detail it reaches beyond the boundaries of the city to each of us, in whatever place we sit down with it, because it is about the daily delicate terrors of love, and that, after all is said and done, is what the best books are about. This is one of those books."