Dog Years: A Memoir (P.S.) - Softcover

Doty, Distinguished Writer Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061171018 ISBN 13: 9780061171017

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Dog Years Presents reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. This book describes the vulnerability of dogs, the energy and joy they bring, and the gift they bear us of unconditional love. Full description

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Review:

"DOG YEARS points out what is...magical about life with animals...A...twinkling landscape of the human heart."--BookPage

"Doty pays loving tribute to two retrievers...DOG YEARS is a warm, thought-provoking discourse."--Entertainment Weekly

"Evocative, compassionate, a love story both intimate and grand, this is a beautiful book."--Amy Hempel

"A wounding yet arresting memoir about living with his dogs...Doty's gorgeous prose and piercing meditations...are simply sublime."--Washington Post Magazine

"Rather amazing...A profound reflection on hope, and a song of praise for the dead."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A dazzling, tactile grasp of the world... both arresting and touching."--New York Times Book Review

"By turns, comic, heartwarming, sentimental (in the very best way) and ultimately heartbreaking."--Ken Munger, Sacramento News and Review

"Life-affirming, lyrical, and profoundly affecting...Only Mark Doty could have written a dog book...that covers so much ground."--Pam Houston, O magazine

"I was charmed, moved, often fascinated...Doty manages to make inner lives just a little more knowable."--Chicago Sun-Times

"No human has ever loved his animals as Mark Doty has...Doty possesses a particular brilliance...[A] stirring chronicle of love."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

Book Description:

The story of the acclaimed poet's time with his two beloved retrievers - and a poignant, perceptive meditation on life, death, and the nature of canine companionship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061171018
• ISBN 13: 9780061171017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256