The heart of a dog
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
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The heart of a dog, Michael Glenny, Michail Bulgakow
- Traces of moisture / spills
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- Released
- 2009
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- Damaged
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- Title
- The heart of a dog
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Glenny, Michail Bulgakow
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0099529947
- ISBN13
- 9780099529941
- Collection
- Vintage classics
- Category
- World prose
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- WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.