Dog Logic

Product Description

Funny, inflammatory, and weirdly prophetic

Silver Winner Foreword INDIES Book Of The Year Award – Science Fiction
Bronze Winner Readers’ Favorite Award – Literary Fiction
Finalist National Indie Excellence Awards – Contemporary Novel
Hertell Daggett is the damaged caretaker of a failing pet cemetery on the outskirts of Bakersfield, and he’s just discovered a lost civilization. Well not lost so much as just, misinformed — they’ve been living beneath the pet cemetery due to some bad information they got back in 1963 about the end of the world, and were completely unaware that the world had wobbled on without them. Hertell leads the duck-and-cover civilization into our glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying world, and in the process, finds a love he never quite lost and a future he never quite imagined.

Review

”
Dog Logic by Tom Strelich is rather like life, harrowing in places, funny in others, occasionally uplifting and sometimes unutterably sad… this novel will evoke a wide range of emotions, from outright laughter to shock, indignation and everything in between. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope to see more novels from Mr Strelich in the future — Readers’ Favorite”

“Strelich has the dramatist’s gift for dialogue, the poet’s feel for space and time, and a prophet’s vision of history’s currents and human folly. Dog Logic is a mordant romp on the fault lines of American progress, at the pace of a drive-in movie. Strelich is a first-class American fabulist.” — Algernon D’Ammassa, Columnist, The Deming Headlight, Deming, New Mexico”Dog Logic is a thinking person’s novel with a hahah funny bone and a jazz musicians sense of going left when you expect to be going right. Mr Strelich is a true original.”– Doug Warner, Artistic Director, Next Stage Repertory Theatre”…funny, clever, savvy and wildly unique. What takes place in the book will be memorable for a reader of the novel. It tells a tale that is special, cautionary, sometimes mind blowing, surprisingly emotional and current. There are a collection of unforgettable characters and experiences that make this a great ride.”  — Steven Woolf, Artistic Director Repertory Theatre of St Louis”…has everything a seasoned reader might desire: powerful, evocative characters worthy of Thomas McGuane, dialogue that is wise, wacky and wonderful, and a plot worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. This is a work for the ages-it is totally aware of where we’ve been, and it teases us with the mystery of where we might be going.” –Dr. Robert Sanborn, Founder and Artistic Director Vertigo Theatre Factory

“Smart as a whip and funny as hell — 
Dog Logic is, firstoff, one of the most brilliant and entertaining books I’ve read in the last year, and I highly, highly recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor about their cultural unease. It’s satirical, lyrical, touching, hilarious, and suspenseful at once.” — Amazon Customer Review

“Dog Logic by Tom Strelich is rather like life, harrowing in places, funny in others, occasionally uplifting and sometimes unutterably sad… this novel will evoke a wide range of emotions, from outright laughter to shock, indignation and everything in between. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope to see more novels from Mr Strelich in the future — Readers’ Favorite”

From the Author

I’ve always operated under the belief that you can’t make up stuff any weirder than it really is. No need for magic wands or alien life forms or mystical powers, just characters, their circumstances, the events that overtake them and their responses, and all of it happening in a world just like the real one we live in, but not quite the same, a realistic, or at least recognizable world just like ours, only a little bit off to the side, and tilted at an odd angle — 
fiction slightly askew.

About the Author

Tom Strelich was born into a family of professional wrestlers and raised in Bakersfield, California, and his writing career