Good Dog. Stay

English

ISBN: 1400067138

EAN: 9781400067138

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Literary/Pets / Dogs / Breeds/Pets / Dogs / General/Nature / Animals/

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 11/19/2007

Synopsis: The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beaus, and on the lessons shes learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present, to raise her nose in the air from time to time and, at least metaphorically, holler, I smell bacon! Of the dog that once possessed a catchers mitt of a mouth, Quindlen reminisces, there came a time when a scrap thrown in his direction usually bounced unseen off his head. Yet put a pork roast in the oven, and the guy still breathed as audibly as an obscene caller. The eyes and ears may have gone, but the nose was eternal. And the tail. The tail still wagged, albeit at half-staff. When it stops, I thought more than once, then well know. Heartening and bittersweet, Good Dog. Stay. honors the life of a cherished and loyal friend and offers us a valuable lesson on our four-legged family members: Sometimes an old dog can teach us new tricks. From the Hardcover edition.

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Good Dog. Stay

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.58 inches

Width: 5.59 inches

Length: 8.15 inches

Weight: 8.18 oz

Pages: 96