I Have Heard You Calling in the Night - Hardcover

Healy, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151012598 ISBN 13: 9780151012596

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Synopsis

It seems now like a different me, the years I spent with Martin, a Doberman dog, and before he came, another me; and it is a new me now, once again, writing this. I would have been dead long ago had I continued to live the way I had before he came.

I think someone would have murdered me, given how I drank and the dives that I drank in and that I was an aggressive, angry man. I had no money and no friends. I didn’t care, I couldn’t have. Thomas Healy was a drunk, a fighter, sometimes a writer, often unemployed, no stranger to the police. His life was going nowhere but downhill. Then one day he bought a pup—a Doberman. He called him Martin. Gradually man and dog became unshakable allies, the closest of comrades, the best of friends. They took long walks together, they vacationed together, they even went to church together.  Martin, in more ways than one, saved Thomas Healy’s life.  Written with unadulterated candor and profound love, this soulful memoir gets at the heart of the intense bond between people and dogs.

About this title

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Review:

'A tale which beautifully conveys the healing, spiritual, nourishing joys of dog ownership' -- Daily Mail

‘A remarkable and moving new book’ -- The Mail on Sunday

‘A spare, compelling and poetic account of how a dog really was a man’s best friend’ -- Biography Top Title, The Bookseller

‘A testament to redemption, a kind of prayer, a survivor’s thanks’ -- Scotsman

‘Balls to Lassie, this dog was a real life- saver’ -- Lads Mag

‘Compelling account of a man’s love for his best friend’ -- Good Book Guide

‘There are some things, some people, we can never forget. Healy and his memoir fit that bill’ -- The Herald (Glasgow)

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0151012598
• ISBN 13: 9780151012596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204