The first story, "The Bones," tells the story of a camel in Australia, who listens to a bigoted poet's view of the world, and is eventually shot by his own master. Each, however, presents an honest picture of what it is to be alive in the world. Some narrators come to uplifting epiphanies by their story's end, while others become figures of tragedy. In particular, these animals consider the questions of authenticity, communication, loneliness, companionship, and, above all, the question of where meaning is found. Although each animal narrator lives in his / her own time and place, they each engage with the problems of life and death, and everything in between. Almost every story in the collection is written in the first person, and all of them are written using past-tense narration. First American edition.ĭovey's collection of short stories has no one coherent plot, but instead offers ten distinct narratives, each of which relates the story of its narrator's death. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Dovey, Ceridwen.
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