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Good Dog. Stay.
by Anna Quindlen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400067138
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067138
- Seller
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Harwinton, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9781400067138 . Faint rubbing to dust jacket; 1st edition, 1st printing. The valuable lessons our 4 legged friends teach us. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pages .
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 Beau's, and on the lessons she's 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 catcher's 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 we'll 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavender Path Antiques and Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7397
- Title
- Good Dog. Stay.
- Author
- Anna Quindlen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1400067138
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067138
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 9781400067138, DOGS - Relationships With Humans
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pets;
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Lavender Path Antiques and Books
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Harwinton, Connecticut
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