SHAGGY DOGS STORY by Ron FInley

Published by Andrews McMeel August, 2006120 pages, with over 130 illustrations

List Price: $14.95 on this site,

ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-6180-5

Format: Soft Cover,

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a special limited-edition hard-cover edition is available exclusively on this site for $19.95

The term "shaggy dog story" originated in India when a presumably shaggy dog tracked his British master across land and sea to the latter's Cornwall estate. The expression finally morphed into a really long joke capped with a droll punch line. In Shaggy Dogs Story, Ron Finley remains true to the original form, blending his prodigious skills as an animator, illustrator, photographer, TV director, and comedy writer to create an inspired yarn that's a delight to behold.The book relates the adventures of Nikki and Sandro, two talented Weimaraners desperate to escape servitude in an Eastern European circus run by an evil Romanian mime. The dogmatic duo escape to the Big Apple, where cosmic forces combine to team them up with a starving, if inept, Young Artist. The trio trot off on adventures through New York's contemporary art scene, a round-the-world photo shoot, and a showing of their work at the Louvre. Their astonishing discoveries in Florence turn the art—and dog—world on its ear.