Good Dog. Stay.
by Anna Quindlen
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Author: Anna QuindlenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-20
ISBN: 1400067138
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: A Little Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
Anna Quindlen is a superb writer and she's done it again with "Good Dog. Stay". Ms. Quindlen is my kind of dog-lover: no gushing, no illusions that this wonderful creature has human feelings, and no compulsion to dress him up in silly clothes. Just respect for what he is: loyal, predictable (usually), goofy, and sweet. I get the title completely - I have an elderly dog (one of several in a long line over my lifetime); I'm crazy about him, and I so want him to "stay", but I recognize that there comes a time where it's about them and not you, and that's when you have to say goodbye. The book is tiny, just like other reviewers have mentioned, (I read the entire thing while eating a sandwich) and I would have preferred it to be longer also, but nevertheless, it's a little gem.
Summary of Good Dog. Stay.
"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.
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