The Dog Eater's Lament, by R.C.A. Nixon

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Travel back to 1910 England, Scotland and beyond for the strange and completely untrue story of Charles Samuel. This poor orphan, a sympathetic fellow really, has developed the most unfortunate compulsion. His long lost 'memoir', supposedly written a century ago, tells of Samuel's journey across the globe, searching for the dogs he loves. Misfortune follows inevitably both for man and beast. A richly told, biting satire, R.C.A. Nixon has created one of fiction's most likeable villains.

The Dog Eater's Lament, by R.C.A. Nixon

• Published on: 2015-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x .79" w x 5.00" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

The Dog Eater's Lament, by R.C.A. Nixon

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Lofty, thrilling read, full of laughs By Ken Lyotier Look here, I love dogs as much as the next person, “a man’s best friend…” and all that, so naturally I was more than a little shocked when I stumbled upon this novel a few days ago.A book about some young guy addicted to eating dogs? Give me a break! This old world is really sick and it just got a whole lot sicker––or at least, so I thought.Curiosity got the better of me though, so I decided to download it and read the first chapter of the Dog Eater’s Lament. In hindsight, in even going this far, I was probably just being cynically intent on confirming all my worst fears about how humanity is “going to the dogs,” so to speak.Well! Let me tell you! What a surprise. This is not at all the gore-fest I had feared. In fact, I don't think I've had a better read in recent memory, and I read plenty.This story is high adventure, seriously told, yet outrageous and hilarious. Every page is fascinating and fun. The Dog Eater's Lament follows the memoirs of 18-year old Charles, an English orphan just starting his adult life. Accidentally he is tricked into eating dog meat, and so, to his endless sorrow, his love affair with his culinary fixation begins. No man ever suffered more misadventure and bad luck in his pursuit of a bizarre obsession. Given the choice between any two options, Charles invariably chooses the wrong one.The Dog Eater’s Lament is black humor at its best, written in a high literary style reminiscent of the early 20th century. Each chapter starts with remarkable quotes about dogs from the greatest works of literature, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, etc. The writer then weaves an adventure story that draws inspiration from these masterworks. Each chapter ends with a recipe like you've never seen before and, with luck, will never taste. Dog Leg in Chocolate Sauce? Really? What kind of mind thinks up this stuff? Yet the author concocts side-splitting tales to accompany almost every dish. It’s a genuine narrative triumph.I will not spoil your enjoyment of this parable of our times by giving away any of the many surprising and delightful twists it takes. But I will say that you may never think about our treatment of dogs in quite the same way again.The Dog Eater’s Lament might even begin to change the way we try to convince ourselves of the righteousness of our prevailing ethical and social constructs. It could also teach us something about how we respond to the human outcasts living among us, of whom the 'dog eater' is simply an extreme allegorical example.This book is a “must read” for everyone from cult classic aficionados to scholars. In fact, I will make a prediction (you’ve seen it here first folks)––that along with other great fictions which have given us that curious array of anti-heroes including such notables as Gulliver, Peter Pan, Walter Mitty, and Spiderman; Charles Samuel of the Dog Eater’s Lament will take a prominent place right along side these other “greats” in this wonderful and enriching literary tradition. Bravo!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Canine culinary gem By Chris Aikenhead Since reading this whimsical yet erudite novel, my walks to the dog park have changed. I now keep a tighter grip on Maggie's leash and scan every house along the way for binoculars peeking out from behind curtains. But if you don't mind worrying about your dog being poached and can stomach the book's premise of a protagonist with a passion for pickled pooch, The Dog Eater's Lament is great fun. It's charming, cheeky, and rewarding in ways that betray its novelty packaging. In movie review terms, this book is "Life of Pi meets Pale Fire meets A Modest Proposal", with a dash of Joy of Cooking thrown in for good luck.R.C.A. Nixon's novel is framed as a long-lost but recently-discovered work of "culinary literature" by Charles Samuel, originally published in 1914. Its contemporary editor and annotator, Marco Kane, presents this "infamous masterwork" as "the most famous recipe collection that no one had ever read". His mission in re-publishing the Lament is to redeem Samuel's reputation from that of "a madman, a puppy murderer" to his true status as "a martyr to the practice of eating canine flesh."There's something inherently delightful in reading fiction that's teasingly outrageous, especially when the protagonist is dressed up in the false formality of a 1914 British voice, then re-wrapped in a faux-academic package complete with encyclopaedic end notes. If the spell of Samuel's mock-earnest chronicle starts to wane, his editor's colourful footnotes, snippets of verse and prose from great authors about dogs, and actual canine recipes from an 1879 book called The Buckeye Guide to Good Housekeeping add a restorative sparkle.Nixon's yarn unwinds through an easy-going narrative that masks a gradually increasing element of the bizarre. At points when the story threatens to rise up above believability like Curious George clinging to his balloons, Nixon has Samuel include historical details that ground the narrative with enough factoids to sustain plausibility. Conversely, just when the tale starts to feel a bit predictable and conventional, the prose is spiced with a dash of preposterousness that sparks the imagination again. Dog-eating is just enough of a taboo to mildly offend without turning the reader off. Meanwhile, the dog meat recipes are engagingly grotesque.As with a gourmet stew that contains too many chunks of mutton, at times The Dog Eater's Lament tends to demand too much chewing. An editor might suggest trying to achieve a little more with a bit less. Some sections - particularly the early story before the arctic adventure, the romantic subplots, and the rivalry between the two main protagonists - occasionally drag a bit. It can be tough to find the perfect balance between using form and style to entertain and being carried away by the storytelling urge. The strength of this book is its wit; when the book starts becoming 'just a novel', i.e. losing sight of its whimsical format and letting the narrative have its own rein, the interest starts to wane. But when Nixon trusts the twinkle in his eye and resists the urge to re-write Moby Dick, his book is admirably and consistently entertaining.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Hot Dawg!! By R W Pendleton I recommended R.C.A. Nixon’s new tome, The Dog Eater’s Lament, to a friend of mine who protested he could “read no more than ten per cent….he loved dogs too much… Uggh!” Stifling the response that came most immediately to mind—“Sure I love dogs too, especially with some of the recipes included at the end of each chapter”—I was reminded of something Roland Barthes once wrote: “You can’t sleep in the word ‘bed’ and you can’t eat the word ‘dog’” (I paraphrase). While not following those French critics into their most flagrant denials of referentiality, one should remember that Nixon’s yarn doesn’t necessarily celebrate the virtues of rushing out and butchering the first innocent pooch one sets eyes on. Indeed which part of “Dog Eater’s” and “lament” did my friend not understand? I loved my friend’s late woofer and yet I also loved Nixon’s novel.The Dog Eater’s Lament is an engaging, intelligent, and well-written read with mythic undertones. Nixon has caught precisely the tenor of late nineteenth / early twentieth-century British prose, and Charles Samuels, the protagonist, has a compelling voice that keeps you reading. A fellow of fairly ordinary tastes, he succumbs to a craving considered by his (and our) society to be a deplorable vice. However, following the Aristotelian definition of the tragic protagonist, he is neither an entirely good man nor an entirely bad one. Far more evil, in fact, is his arch-antagonist—the hypocritical Meshach, himself a dog eater who alternates between affecting to be Samuels’ friend and consistently betraying him to his own (Meshach’s) advantage.At a deeper level, the novel mines a profound mythic core, touching most obviously on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—the story even involves a chase through the Arctic wastes. In this way, the narrative taps into the Prometheus or Uranus archetype of eternal rebellion against an oppressive, arbitrary authority, which is entirely against the rebel’s best interests. Samuels is a tragic character because, as with the creator of Frankenstein, the obsession that is destroying him is just about the only thing that inspires him to keep on living. Hot Dawg!!

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