The People with the Dogs
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| Author | Christina Stead |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 345pp |
| Preceded by | A Little Tea, a Little Chat |
| Followed by | Dark Places of the Heart |
The People with the Dogs (1952) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead.
Edward Massine has returned home to New York from the Second World War to a doting family. The last of his line he is in a comfortable position that he finds very difficult to break away from. He waits too long to marry his long-term girlfriend who chooses another, but subsequently meets and marries Lydia, an actress, finally exchanging his suffocating family life for a bright new future.