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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mark Doty
Published: 04/08/2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061171017
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 0.61″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.38″ W
Award: 2007 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist – Men’s Memoir/Biography
About the Author
Doty, Mark: –
Mark Doty’s books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.
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