Dog Years - (P.S.) by Mark Doty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Moving and intimate, this memoir is interwoven with profound reflections on feelings for animals and the lessons they teach about life, love, and loss. Elegantly written . . . Stunningly moving."USA Today"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A <em>Washington Post Book World</em> Best Book of the Year</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Israel Fishman-Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction</strong></p><p><strong>Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing. -- <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><p>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. </p><p><em>Dog Years</em> 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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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. </p><p><em>Dog Years</em> 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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Doty delivers a soulful love story which illuminates...the big human mysteries...As intellectually evocative as it is emotionally resonant."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"Doty pays loving tribute to two retrievers...DOG YEARS is a warm, thought-provoking discourse."--<em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br><br>"DOG YEARS points out what is...magical about life with animals...A...twinkling landscape of the human heart."--<em>BookPage</em><br><br>"Lyrical and sensitive...Doty poetically expresses what many have felt but few can articulate."--<em>USA Today</em><br><br>"No human has ever loved his animals as Mark Doty has...Doty possesses a particular brilliance...[A] stirring chronicle of love."--<em>Minneapolis Star Tribune</em><br><br>"Tender and amusing...Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing."--<em>The New Yorker</em><br><br>"A dazzling, tactile grasp of the world... both arresting and touching."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"A tender reflection on love and loss, this is MARLEY & ME for the cerebral."--<em>People</em><br><br>"Potent and expressive...The weight of Doty's adoration for his pets is expressed with...eloquence throughout."--<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br><br>"This is Doty at his best....Doty does in fact make the unsayable sayable, bringing the ungraspable within our reach."--<em>Los Angeles Times</em><br><br>"A great poet can break your heart, sometimes with a single line. Mark Doty proves it twice over....Utterly unforgettable."--Palm Beach Post<br><br>"A meditation on how we can live with hope...Dog Years wrestles with the Big Questions."--Houston Chronicle<br><br>"A wounding yet arresting memoir about living with his dogs...Doty's gorgeous prose and piercing meditations...are simply sublime."--Washington Post Magazine<br><br>"By turns, comic, heartwarming, sentimental (in the very best way) and ultimately heartbreaking."--Ken Munger, Sacramento News and Review<br><br>"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<br><br>"Doty writes unsentimentally but affectingly about the solace and companionship dogs provide...the hope...they bring into a home."--Out Magazine<br><br>"Evocative, compassionate, a love story both intimate and grand, this is a beautiful book."--Amy Hempel<br><br>"Frankly and beautifully told...DOG YEARS respects Beau's and Arden's singularity. Doty describes them lovingly, with poetic specificity."--John Freeman, Newark Star Ledger<br><br>"I was charmed, moved, often fascinated...Doty manages to make inner lives just a little more knowable."--Chicago Sun-Times<br><br>"Life-affirming, lyrical, and profoundly affecting...Only Mark Doty could have written a dog book...that covers so much ground."--Pam Houston, O magazine<br><br>"Poignant, intelligent, and quite simply superb."--Library Journal (starred)<br><br>"Rather amazing...A profound reflection on hope, and a song of praise for the dead."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)<br>
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