Dog Years: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Doty, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061171018 ISBN 13 : 9780061171017

Editeur : 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

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Tender and amusing...Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing.” (The New Yorker)

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

“Potent and expressive...The weight of Doty’s adoration for his pets is expressed with...eloquence throughout.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“This is Doty at his best....Doty does in fact make the unsayable sayable, bringing the ungraspable within our reach.” (Los Angeles Times)

“A tender reflection on love and loss, this is MARLEY & ME for the cerebral.” (People)

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

“A wounding yet arresting memoir about living with his dogs...Doty’s gorgeous prose and piercing meditations...are simply sublime.” (Washington Post Magazine)

“Lyrical and sensitive...Doty poetically expresses what many have felt but few can articulate.” (USA Today)

“Doty is at his best...exploring the mirrorlike quality of a dog’s gaze or the inextricable duality of hope and despair..” (New York magazine)

“A meditation on how we can live with hope...Dog Years wrestles with the Big Questions.” (Houston Chronicle)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year

Winner of the Israel Fishman-Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction

"Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing." -- The New Yorker

When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau bounds back into life. Before long, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days.

Dog Years is a poignant, intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about living, love, and loss.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061171018
• ISBN 13: 9780061171017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256