A swift-moving, gently poignant romantic comedy of manners.., offers more than a sweet story of puppy love. Schine strikes a rare, deeply personal, and very loving chord as she portrays the way these devoted pets elicit joy from the depressed, humanity from the merciless, and inspire flirtations and encounters between the shy and monastic.

TINSPIRED BY HER ACCOUNT IN THE NEW YORKER ofadopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly funny story of love, longing, and overcoming the shyness that leashes us. On a quiet little block near Central Park, five lonely NewYorkers find one another,compelled to meet by their canine companions. Over the course of four seasons, they emerge from their apartments in snow, rain, or gtorious sunshine to make friends and sometimes fall in love. A love letter to a city full of surprises, The New Yorkers is an enchanting comedy of manners (with dogs!) from one of our most treasured writers.

Prologue

one  "I live here! I live here!"

two "Everything looks different today"

three  A Deux

four  "George! Wake upl"

five A Gentleman

six "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring'~

seven  The Chick Magnet

eight "Do you ever buy flowers?"

nine  Heat

ten  This Is Longing

eleven  A Blind Date

twelve "Someone who would be right for you"

thirteen  "No regrets:"

fourteen Was She in Love?

fifteen "Just for a little while"

sixteen  The Happy Couple

seventeen  "It's urgent:"

eighteen  "Just my luck"

nineteen  "He bites"

twenty "But what I really meant was love"

twenty-one  "We have to talk"

twenty-two  The Spinster

twenty-three  He Had Come for the Dogs

twenty-four Thanksgiving

twenty-five  "I don't just mean the dog"

Epilogue