"The Hidden Life of Dogs" was one of those stealth bestsellers that send surprised publishers bounding around the room doing kung fu moves, shouting, "Who's the bomb? I'm the bomb!" The first printing, in August 1993, was 13,000 copies. Within a week Houghton Mifflin had orders for 10,000 more. It spent nearly 10 months on the New York Times bestseller list.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' deceptively easy-to-read book chronicles of a group of dogs, each described with an engaging insight that seems both novelistic and scientific."

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