Lives of the monster dogs
(Book)

"With a new introduction by Jeff Vandermeer"--Cover.

Originally published in 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside.