An Evening with Thomas Wharton (Wolf, Moon, Dog)

Name: An Evening with Thomas Wharton (Wolf, Moon, Dog)
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-03T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join us for a very special evening with Thomas Wharton as he returns to Winnipeg to discuss his new book, Wolf, Moon, Dog (Random House of Canada): a witty, charming and heartfelt novel about the many fabled lives of a dog named Wolf—hunter, guardian, guide, healer, friend. Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Winnipeg Free Press literary editor Ben Sigurdson. Co-presented by Plume Winnipeg.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781039013964/thomas-wharton/wolf-moon-dog
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/O8QEl0-DVmA
Please note that this event is dog-friendly (naturally).
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In Wolf, Moon, Dog the award-winning author of The Book of Rain follows Wolf as he reincarnates through the ages, from Ancient Egypt to Alexandrian Greece to the Space Race and all the way to a dark future beset by climate change. Indeed, Wolf dies many times over, but each of his lives is uniquely meaningful, unleashing different aspects of humankind’s best friend. In Wharton's novel and fable, dogs are deeply empathetic creatures who experience a breadth of emotions and a desire for self-determination much the way we do, and who, also like us, struggle to reconcile conflicting instincts.
Dancing across genres and cultures, space and time, Wolf, Moon, Dog is as insightful about human nature as it is about canine behaviour, sure to delight dog lovers and show even readers immune to a dog's charm how much there is to learn from our canine counterparts.
Thomas Wharton has been published in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., France, Italy, Japan and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book Canada and the Caribbean and was also a 2008 CBC Canada Reads pick. His next book, Salamander, was shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and was also a finalist for the Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize the same year. In 2006, Wharton's collection of stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His latest novel, The Book of Rain, was a finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize and the 2024 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and has sold rights in France and Russia. Wharton currently lives near Edmonton, Alberta.