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Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-56703-050-1
Summary
My name is Dean Hickok. Sergeant, late of the U.S. Marines. I authored this work, though I did not create its people nor their stories. These, you will come to find, I inherited. The book and its people became known to me because I nearly ran down a dog one night on a back road during a Kentucky rainstorm. The dog, it turned out, had been made to suffer and left to die in a crate. But his will to survive, his determination to overcome the many cruelties inflicted upon him, and the ultimate and unabated goodness that abided in him even afterward, are the actual reason these pages bearing my name exist at all. I was profoundly wounded of heart and empty of purpose as I drove through the Kentucky darkness that night. I had recently returned from Iraq, the lone survivor of my squad, when my headlights bore through a sweeping rain to find him there stumbled and fallen. Both of us being on that same road, on that night, and at that moment, was not an accidental happenstance but the poetry of fate For, as much as I saved a dog's life, he saved mine. And a little boy's - but that is for later in the story.
So begins what is being described as "A landmark American work of heart" that was born from a journey the author took across this country to collect stories about the dog and man. But it is not just a book about a dog known as GIV. It is also about America, its places and people. And the events that shaped our history and impacted our hearts. "Giv was meant to be," wrote the author, "a window through which to view the great soul of this nation. Giv is a compass, guiding the reader through passages of generosity and sacrifice, courage and goodness, to that most essential and eternal of places ... selfless love."
About the Author
Boston Teran is the author of four previous novels. He has been nominated or won numerous awards including, the JOHN CREASY AWARD, INTERNATIONAL IMPAC AWARD, BOOK OF THE YEAR in France, BOOK OF THE YEAR in Japan, READERS DIGEST BEST FIRST NOVEL OF THE YEAR. Two of his novels are being developed into major motion pictures. His fifth novel, THE CREED OF VIOLENCE, which is to be published by COUNTERPOINT in the Fall of 09 was bought by Universal Studios for the second highest price ever paid for an unpublished manuscript. GIV- The Story Of A Dog And America will be his sixth novel and will be published by High-Top in the Fall of '09.
Reviews
Giv - The Story of a Dog and America, by the enigmatic, award winning
author, Boston Teran..."follows the story of a dog named Giv on his journey
across the America of 9/11 and Katrina and Iraq, the America of music and
movies, crime and beauty, love and pathos, god and goodness, and the
eternality of human redemption and healing."
It does that and so much more. A most unique, beautifully written and
enriching book, it is to literature what the great murals are to painting
and art. For that is what Giv is - an American mural. Murals have sweep and
theme. They are a vison of life. A testament to ideas. This is Giv.
From the first moments at a motel in Arizona called St. Peter's to when the
narrator of the tale - Sergeant Dean Hickok, a returning war vet from Iraq -
finds Giv near death on a rainy backwoods road, the reader, through the dog,
comes to experience the heart and soul of the nation.
Giv and the Sergeant are two veterans of the world, and wars. They are
survivors, struggling, looking for a place, a home. Their journey together
is the journey of healing one's life. As in all classic and mythic tales
there are dramas and confrontations, sorrows and joys. There are sequences
in this book that will grab at your emotions like few books I have ever
read, and there are sequences that are spellbinding in their visual power
(the section on Katrina, that takes you right into the flood, will stand as
one of the all time descriptions of an experience). In this book there are
an extraordinary range of characters - Anna Perrina, Ian, Ruthie Ruth, Mz.
El, just to name a few. Through them and their stories, profound ideas and
meanings are uncovered.
Let me quote here from the book..."He can feel it all the way down in the
thread of his blood. Somewhere he will come upon a sunrise where he can be
childlike and pure again. Where he will be given a chance, a means, a way, a
home, a friend, and the emptiness and wear will mean nothing. The strong
light of beauty will outshine everything." This is but one of the many gems
in the grand mural that is Giv. Experience it!
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