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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Dog Years about Case, Hill, Jersey with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life.
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conversations.value: An artist who has written three nonfiction books for adults, the author makes her children's book debut with this intermittently poignant novel. Case Hill, a mature 12-year-old, is adjusting to some major changes. His father, convicted of robbery, has been sent to prison, and Case, his mother and six-year-old sister have moved from suburban New Jersey into a shabby apartment in Philadelphia, where the boy sleeps in a curtained-off alcove of the living room. When his class begins to publish a newspaper, Case puts his artistic talent to use and creates a weekly cartoon lampooning school life. The endeavor lands Case in unexpected trouble-and teaches him a lesson. the author incisively reveals Case's rapport with his hard-working mother, his spunky sister, their caring landlord and his one real friend. Adding further dimension to this likable character are the letters he writes to his estranged father, reproduced at the start and at the close of the story. Ages 9-12. <BR>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Dog Years about Dog, War, Amsel with the genre: Literature & Fiction, World Literature.
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conversations.value: Dog Years is a meditation on modern history in the guise of a novel, a study of Germany before, during and after the Second World War, a tale of the interrelated fortunes of two friends, Walter Matern, Aryan, and Eddi Amsel, half-Jew. In its well-nigh stupefying length, in its almost ritual use of distortions, shifting perspectives, and completely unaccommodating, dispassionate weaving of minutiae (at once quaint, brutal, and poetic), and in the terrible geniality of its denunciatory spirit and in its disgusts, it is without doubt one of the most astonishing literary performances since Finnegans Wake. It is also, naturally, one of the most troubling. By comparison, The Tin Drum is a mere roller coaster ride through the Absurd. the author' technique- a mingling of Beckett, Brecht, and his own half-solemn, half-winking naturalism- Juxtaposes the traditional order of character and situation with quasi-allegorical effects: e.g., the recurrent word play on Heideggerian concepts; the deadpan caricature of mass media, the cool nightmarish descriptions of industry; the quirky, staccato close-ups of front line fighting; above all, the underlying canine metaphor whereby a stud dog, involved in the adolescence of all the participants, fathers der Fuhrer's favorite hound, Pluto, later picked up by Natern on his hellish post-war Journey. Lupus est homo homini etc...??Matern, of course, represents history's adjustable man: protector and tormentor of his "sheeny" friend, battered about the Left and Right ("I was red, put on brown, wore black, dyed myself red. Spit on me..."); Amsel, of course, is his alter ego. Dog Years is a product of the Cold War, in which absolutes boringly teeter on the brink, in which men (who have become sociologized "topics of discussion") scowl at each other or try to touch through a thick universal pane of glass. An important book which will receive an important press. ( Kirkus Reviews )
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled Dog Years.
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conversations.value: Dog Years (novel): Walter Matern and Eduard Amsel are friends.\nEduard is half Jewish and at the young age of five is a genius at making scarecrows.\nThe narrator in Book One, the mine owner Brauxel, tells of the friendship of Walter and Eduard when they are children in the Vistula estuary, which is a German-Polish borderland (the interwar Free City of Danzig) peopled by Mennonites, Catholics and Protestants.\nEduard keeps a diary which he fills with drawings of ideas for scarecrows.\nThe history of this country is told with cruel images of horror and violence from that past that echoes into the present, which becomes Hitler's Germany.\nThe story in the second part of the book is narrated by Harry Liebenau, and consists of letters from him addressed to his cousin Tulla.\nThis part of the story occurs during the war period, when Amsel collects vast numbers ofA.\nuniforms, and dresses his scarecrows in them.\nHe also persuades his childhood friend Walter to become member of theA, in order to help him obtain the uniforms.\nBut since the confusion in this country has reached its maximum at this point in time, it is inevitable that the two friends end up on a collision course.\nAt one point Walter denounces Amsel as a Jew, hits him in the face and knocks out all of his teeth.\nThe last part of the novel is narrated by Walter and takes place after he has found his new friend Prinz.\nThey leave on a journey in the postwar West Germany, where they systematically attack former Nazis who are now posing as respectable officials throughout the country.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: \nThey leave on a journey in the postwar West Germany, where they systematically attack former Nazis who are now posing as respectable officials throughout the country..\nThe last part of the novel is narrated by Walter and takes place after he has found his new friend Prinz.\nAt one point Walter denounces Amsel as a Jew, hits him in the face and knocks out all of his teeth.\nBut since the confusion in this country has reached its maximum at this point in time, it is inevitable that the two friends end up on a collision course.\nHe also persuades his childhood friend Walter to become member of theA, in order to help him obtain the uniforms.\nuniforms, and dresses his scarecrows in them.\nThis part of the story occurs during the war period, when Amsel collects vast numbers ofA.\nThe story in the second part of the book is narrated by Harry Liebenau, and consists of letters from him addressed to his cousin Tulla.\nThe history of this country is told with cruel images of horror and violence from that past that echoes into the present, which becomes Hitler's Germany.\nEduard keeps a diary which he fills with drawings of ideas for scarecrows.\nThe narrator in Book One, the mine owner Brauxel, tells of the friendship of Walter and Eduard when they are children in the Vistula estuary, which is a German-Polish borderland (the interwar Free City of Danzig) peopled by Mennonites, Catholics and Protestants.\nEduard is half Jewish and at the young age of five is a genius at making scarecrows.Dog Years (novel): Walter Matern and Eduard Amsel are friends
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Dog, War, Amsel.
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conversations.value: Dog Years (film): The film revolves around the lonely Wally, a Trojan skinhead whose only friend is his beloved Dalmatian Neechee.\nOne day while walking her, Wally accidentally becomes involved with a strange deal gone bad when he bumps into a fleeing stranger being chased by a group of mob thugs.\nWhen he gets tangled up in Neechee's leash and frantically kicks the dog, Wally proceeds to beat him up and gets arrested by passing police officers.\nThe dealer gets away and Wally spends a night in jail.\nUpon being released, he learns that his dog has been kidnapped by the mob thugs, who are convinced Wally's holding the drugs that have been taken from them.\nAlthough he quickly proves that he's innocent, the mob's still not letting him off that easily: either he'll have to do some work for them, or both he and the dog are dead.\nReluctantly, Wally agrees to run some illegal errands.\nWhen the errands are a bust and he's almost arrested, Wally flees and the mob puts a hit on both him and Neechee (who has managed to escape from the criminals' hideout).\nEnlisting the help of a young veterinarian, Wally attains an arsenal of firearms and is ready to exact his revenge on the ruthless kingpins.\nAll he wants is his dog back.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: \nAll he wants is his dog back.\nOne day while walking her, Wally accidentally becomes involved with a strange deal gone bad when he bumps into a fleeing stranger being chased by a group of mob thugs.\nWhen he gets tangled up in Neechee's leash and frantically kicks the dog, Wally proceeds to beat him up and gets arrested by passing police officers.\nThe dealer gets away and Wally spends a night in jail.\nUpon being released, he learns that his dog has been kidnapped by the mob thugs, who are convinced Wally's holding the drugs that have been taken from them.\nAlthough he quickly proves that he's innocent, the mob's still not letting him off that easily: either he'll have to do some work for them, or both he and the dog are dead.\nReluctantly, Wally agrees to run some illegal errands.\nWhen the errands are a bust and he's almost arrested, Wally flees and the mob puts a hit on both him and Neechee (who has managed to escape from the criminals' hideout).\nEnlisting the help of a young veterinarian, Wally attains an arsenal of firearms and is ready to exact his revenge on the ruthless kingpins.Dog Years (film): The film revolves around the lonely Wally, a Trojan skinhead whose only friend is his beloved Dalmatian Neechee.