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'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.'
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Red Dog, Louis de Bernières
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Red Dog
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Louis de Bernières
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 119
- ISBN10
- 0436256177
- ISBN13
- 9780436256172
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Animals, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Dogs, Australia, Narration, Stories About Dogs
- First published
- 2001
- Original title
- Red Dog
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- 'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.'