THE DOG WALKER: AN ANARCHIST’S ENCOUNTERS WITH THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE CANINE
Book ID/图书代码： 08885015B81949
English Summary/英文概要： A dog book for the 99%, The Dog Walker is a hugely entertaining look at the world’s greatest job—by an activist who spent a decade as a dog walker for the political class
Dog walking: it’s every eight-year-old’s dream! You spend your day outdoors; you interact exclusively with silly, loving, ridiculous dogs; and you get paid for it. But the reality is . . . well, actually, the reality is pretty great, too, at least according to the anarchist Joshua Stephens’s eye-opening account of the dog walker’s life.
An Anthony Bourdain of the dog walking set, Stephens reports on what every master of the trade—and every informed consumer—needs to know: always keep a spare set of keys, always have references, and never, ever board your beloved pet. But Stephens also goes deeper: he shows us what dog walking reveals about everything from gentrification to street harassment, and why radical empathy must always anchor every interaction—canine or otherwise.
Rich with hilarious anecdotes, brilliant observations, and a powerful political conscience, The Dog Walker calls to mind David Rakoff at his most sardonic—if, that is, Rakoff had been an anarchist who walked dogs for a living. An irreverent and perceptive fish-out-of-water story, The Dog Walker is totally irresistible.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《遛狗人》百分之九十九是一本关于狗狗的书籍，同时它也是一本极具娱乐性的书籍，带着你一窥这个世界上最伟大的工作---一位花了数十年时间为政客们遛狗的活跃分子的故事。
遛狗：这是每一个八岁的孩子们都梦寐以求的事情！你一整天都可以在户外度过，只需要和傻傻的，可爱的，甚至有时候有点可笑的狗狗互动；你便可以因此获得金钱收入。然而现实其实是。。。。。。好吧，事实上，现实生活中，这项工作也是十分伟大的，至少根据无政府主义者约书亚•史蒂芬令人大开眼界的描述遛狗人的生活是这样的。
作为遛狗界的安东尼•波登，史蒂芬对这项交易中的每一位主人都作了详细的描述----以及每一名有常识的顾客所需要知道的一切：永远备一份备用钥匙，切记有所参考，永远都不要寄养你的爱宠。但除此以外，史蒂芬还进行了深入的叙述：他向我们分享了通过遛狗所揭示的各种信息，从中产阶级化到临街骚扰，为何激进分子的移情作用总是会固定在各种互动活动上---例如对狗狗等。
《遛狗人》一书中充满了令人捧腹大笑的奇闻轶事，睿智的观察以及强有力的政治观点，将会令你不由得想起大卫•拉考夫最具讽刺性的样子----想象拉考夫也成为了一名无政府主义者，并走在大街上以遛狗为生吧。作为一个稍有冒犯却又能够让人感同身受的感到格格不入之感的故事，《遛狗人》一定会令你难以抗拒。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 约书亚•史蒂芬的作品曾被刊载在AlterNet, Truthout, NOW Lebanon, Jadaliyya, 以及 Perspectives on Anarchist Theory等报刊杂志上。
JOSHUA STEPHENS’s writing has appeared in AlterNet, Truthout, NOW Lebanon, Jadaliyya, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
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