Kelleher, Victor — Dogboy

Asheville, North Carolina Front Street First Edition, First Printing pp. 214. Small 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue, and green boards, gilt lettering to the spine. No detectable flaws, extremities and contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine dustjacket. "Here is a tale that questions who we are and how we relate to the natural world. He is born on a bare hillside, near the end of the Dry Time. Abandoned by his mother, cared for and suckled only by a dog, he becomes a creature of the wilds. To the poor villagers, he hardly appears human at all, and they reject him. Yet the dogboy, as he is called, proves to be a survivor in this USBBY Outstanding International Book. Against all odds, and despite his savage upbringing, he grows into a "special" child—someone destined to change the lives of all who cross his path."