EPISODE · Sep 27, 2011 · 3 MIN
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
from Get New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment · host Crystal Quitzon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend Author: Susan Orlean Narrator: Susan Orlean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Susan Orlean—acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book—Rin Tin Tin is “an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog” (The Wall Street Journal). He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and 'a masterpiece' (Chicago Tribune) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend Author: Susan Orlean Narrator: Susan Orlean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Susan Orlean—acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book—Rin Tin Tin is “an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog” (The Wall Street Journal). He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and 'a masterpiece' (Chicago Tribune) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality.
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