Lives of the Monster Dogs
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Lives of the Monster Dogs is a 1997 novel by Kirsten Bakis, her first book. It won the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel. In 2008 a group of elegant dogs, surgically enhanced to walk upright and speak, arrive in New York in top hats and bustle skirts and become instant celebrities. Created by the followers of a nineteenth-century Prussian surgeon in an isolated town, they struggle to adjust to modern life as their minds and bodies begin to fail.
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