Susan Orlean’s sweeping, profoundly emotional narrative of Rin Tin Tin’s transformation from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who featured in twenty-seven films during the 1920s begins here. Rin Tin Tin is a love storey, a quintessentially American storey of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality that spans almost a century 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.
