Chez Dogs

About the Book

Unreeling time in Remembering Dogs, I ask the kind reader to join me in reminiscence with love and affection mutts, mongrels, the high bred that filled our lives with the purest joy. Perhaps, the title should read more explicitly as Remembering Dogs In and About a Restaurant, a landmark restaurant my parents owned in Coney Island during its hey-day, and decline. It had a dual reputation, as a restaurant with a solid cucina and, the site of a prominent kennel which housed on average forty to fifty dogs of various breeds. My father was the foremost fancier of the Boston Terrier in the USA, he had no prejudices against any other breed, he loved them all. There were times when I thought his sporting life as a fancier of the Boston Terrier, the American Breed, was a tip of the hat tribute to the country that gave a 16 year old immigrant warmth and a place. Many a day he preferred the company of the dogs in his kennel than the company of his dining patrons. You, the reader, are eager to tell me tales about your dog. I shall temper your impetuosity, and mine, by a passing salute to the restaurant dog.

About the Author

Frank Palescandolo is a translator, poet, novelist, and memoirist. Under the sun of Sorrento, in the tradition of writers such as Norman, Douglas, Axel Munthe, Francis Marion Crawford, Harold Acton, and McKenzie, in that golden clime, he has written novels set in Italy: The Romantist, La Sirena Straniera, The Nose of San Januarius, and Phallos Dionysus. Also, he drew on his experiences as a member of the District Attorney's Office of Brooklyn and became an exciting novelist of crime. His first novel Rumble on the Docks sold two million copies and was adapted for a film starring James Darren. His dark novels are dramatized documentaries of New York crime. Forthcoming is his memoir Remembrance of a Restaurant, a reminiscence of a family famous restaurant.