The Cowboy Dog
by Nigel Cox
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When Chester Farlowe's father is killed, Chester is forced to leave the vast cattle ranches of New Zealand's central volcanic plateau for the badlands of urban Auckland. Henry Stroud, proprietor of the I Fry takeaway wagon, takes him under his wing and rechristens him "Mr. Dog." Still full of anger six years later, Chester sets out to plot revenge on his father's killer and finds that he must contend with Boss Lennox, the Sultation Kid, and the seductive and inscrutable Miss Peet before he gets to the showdown. This mythical story reconfigures the New Zealand experience with an absorbing coming-of-age tale.
Author: Nigel Cox
ISBN: 9780864735447
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Published: 20062601
Format: Paperback / softback
About the Author
Novelist and essayist Nigel Cox was born in Pahiatua and grew up in the Wairarapa and Lower Hutt. His early working life was varied: advertising account executive, assembly line worker at Ford, deck hand, coalman, door-to-door turkey salesman, driver. Eventually, in the UK, he found his way into the book world, working for many years as a bookseller and a freelance writer. The author of six novels, Cox was awarded the Buckland Literary Award in 1988 and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in 1991. Cox was senior writer for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, before moving to Berlin as Head of Communication and Interpretation at the Jewish Museum. Nigel Cox passed away in 2006 after a long illness.
