Timbuktu

"Too often, [Auster] has Bones thinking more like a vaguely dimwitted human being than a bright, curious dog, and too often he settles for tired jokes about the difficulty of teaching old dogs new tricks and the problem of dogs' not being able to read signs that say "No Dogs Allowed." Yet if TIMBUKTU does not entirely deliver its promising premise, it nonetheless emerges as Auster's most touching, most emotionally accessible book. In writing this slender fairy tale, Auster seems to have realized that...he can tell an old-fashioned story, replete with sentiment and even flourishes of sentimentality, without losing his voice."Timbuktu , with ISBN 9780571203291 and ISBN 0571203299.