{"product_id":"white-dog-9780226284309","title":"White Dog","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhite Dog\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gary, Romain. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226284309.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth a personal memoir and a French novelists encounter with American reality, White Dog is an unforgettable portrait of racism and hypocrisy. Set in the tumultuous Los Angeles of 1968, Romain Garys story begins when a German shepherd strays into his life: \"He was watching me, his head cocked to one side, with that unbearable intensity of dogs in the pound waiting for a rescuer.\" A lost police canine, this \"white dog\" is programmed to respond violently to the sight of a black man and Garys attempts to deprogram it—like his attempts to protect his wife, the actress Jean Seberg; like her endeavors to help black activists; like his need to rescue himself from the \"predicament of being trapped, lock, stock and barrel within a human skin\"—lead from crisis to grief.\n\nUsing the re-education of this adopted pet as a metaphor for the need to quash American racism, Gary develops a domestic crisis into a full-scale social allegory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44744063451189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226284301","price":315.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0226284301_a238edc8-eee4-4770-84bc-d3130651c06e_129bb369-a686-40e6-a472-e51b508e0b4b.jpg?v=1792490911","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/white-dog-9780226284309","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}