Rex and the City: A Memoir of a Woman, a Man, and a Dysfunctional Dog


Posted on Feb 5, 2008
By Melissa Holbrook Pierson

by Lee Harrington

Villard, 272 pages, $13.95

Most of us don't get a dog in a vacuum--that is to say, we bring our dogs from the shelter into lives filled with prior relationships. With humans.

However, we very well may be bringing them home into a dog-knowledge vacuum, and the effect can be hilarious, poignant, or both of these at once. This is certainly the case for author Lee Harrington and her husband, Ted.

When they go to the shelter and rescue a spaniel they name Rex, he refuses to act anything like they expect (and one suspects that, to Rex, they don't either). In a sweet parallel to their new and hard-won understanding of the doggie mind, Lee and Ted's relationship evolves greater depths as well.

Harrington's long-running column by the same title (get it?) in The Bark has always been the first thing many readers turn to, for its honest and self-effacing humor as it charts the progress of woman and dog through the maze of the heart. The book is a keeper.
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