The Art of Racing in the Rain Analysis

Rain and Coffee BeansNo, this book isn't a giant Washington cliché. We don't see any hipsters drinking cold brews out of mason jars or talking about the irony of things, and Denny doesn't wear lar...

Is it weird to say "first person" when our narrator is a dog? Maybe "first dog" would make more sense?Anyway, this story is told simultaneously with a first person central narrator and a first pers...

The genre for this book is interesting, because it is both an autobiography and a biography, but a fictional one.Confused? So were we, but hear us out. Enzo, the central narrator of his own story,...

There are no two-ways about it; this book isn't light and fluffy. The going gets rough and ruff. There's a lot of dense, emotionally draining stuff here, and without knowing when the light at the e...

It's hard to imagine how dogs think, and until we know for sure, the possibilities for speculation are almost endless. Do their thoughts come out in disjointed fragments, or in their own personal d...

The Art of Racing in the Rain. Definitely more creative than A Dog's Life or Where the Racetrack Ends. But what does it mean?As with all things that require any form of skill, racing could be calle...

With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. — Ayrton Senna We could be snappy and point out that this is a quote from a famous rac...

Enzo dies.Womp womp.Yeah, we all knew it was coming, but it still made us bawl like the scene in The Lion King when Mufasa dies. Animal deaths are sad: it's a truth universally acknowledged. So whe...

Stein's writing is snappy, eloquent, and thoughtful. Enzo is a narrator who really gets down into the meat and potatoes of human existence. For someone who isn't human, he sure is good at separatin...