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Title details for Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean - Available

Rin Tin Tin

The Life and the Legend

by Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
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From Susan Orlean—acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book—Rin Tin Tin is "an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog" (The Wall Street Journal).
He believed the dog was immortal.

So begins Susan Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin's journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog's improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and "a masterpiece" (Chicago Tribune) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality.

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  • Release date

    September 27, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781442344976
      • File size: 357228 KB
      • Duration: 12:24:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Susan Orlean is a wonderfully accomplished writer. Her voice wears well over time, and those of us who prefer the author's voice will approve this production. The text itself is outstanding. The life and career of Rin Tin Tin, film's greatest canine star, are in their way the ultimate dog lover's tale and the ultimate film history wrapped into one. Orlean's depth of research, eye for detail, and wry humor--which dances beneath the reportorial objectivity of her prose--all come through in her reading but in a way that is less nuanced, less subtle and exact than her writing. This is one of the fall's most anticipated titles, and justly so. But Orlean may be in that category of prose--seemingly artless but finely calibrated--that requires an equally subtle and practiced narrator. D.A.W. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 11, 2011
      With this stirring biographical history, Orlean follows up her bestselling The Orchid Thief with another tale of passion and dedication overcoming adversity and even common senseâthis one centering on Rin Tin Tin, the German shepherd who founded a film and TV dynasty. After spending a lonely childhood in an orphanage, the young soldier Lee Duncan discovers on the battlefield of WWI France the puppy that will make a name for him as one of Hollywood's top dog trainers, and become his life's guiding purpose. The book follows Rin Tin Tin's trajectory from early Hollywood's "Poverty Row," where Duncan sought the dog's first film deal, to international celebrity in silent films, radio shows, and TV programs. Though Rin Tin Tin's contracts began to lapse in later years, Duncan never ceased grooming canine successors and shopping around scripts, and producer Bert Leonard lived on friends' couches as he poured money into colorizing old episodes of The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Orlean directs a sympathetic gaze toward these men so haunted by their memories of the dog that swept them into stardom. Even readers coming to Rin Tin Tin for the first time will find it difficult to refrain from joining Duncan in his hope that Rin Tin Tin's legacy will "go on forever."

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