You’ve got a 360 page book and a 93 minute movie-something going to change. Of course, it’s an adaptation, and with an adaptation everything isn’t going to be exactly the same.
GS: Kind of cool, you know! There’s something fun about Hollywood. What was it like to have your book turned into a movie? PF: I’m a big fan of your book and I love the movie. And I thought, that’s how I could write this story, from a dog’s point of view. Years later I heard Billy Collins read a poem, The Revenant, he had written from a dog’s point of view. I thought that was interesting, how could I use that? But I didn’t know exactly how I could work it into a story. Their belief was that the next incarnation for a dog would be as a person. One of the inspirations for the book came when I saw a documentary film called State of Dogs which was set in Mongolia.
GS: It didn’t come about from any one place. “I savored Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain for many reasons: a dog who speaks, the thrill of competitive racing, a heart-tugging storyline, and-best of all-the fact that it is a meditation on humility and hope in the face of despair.PF: How did the story for The Art of Racing in the Rain come about? This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human.” - Sara Gruen, Author of Water for Elephants “The Art of Racing in The Rain has everything: love, tragedy, redemption, danger, and-most especially-the canine narrator Enzo. I loved this book.” - Sara Gruen, Author of Water for Elephants This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human. “ The Art of Racing in The Rain has everything: love, tragedy, redemption, danger, and-most especially-the canine narrator Enzo. “The perfect book for anyone who knows that some of our best friends walk beside us on four legs that compassion isn’t only for humans and that the relationship between two ant for each other never really comes to an end.” - Jodi Picoult “Fans of Marley & Me, rejoice.” - Entertainment Weekly
“Splendid.” - People (3 ½ out of 4 stars) “One of those stories that may earn its place next to Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.” - Portland Oregonian
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