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Dogs We Love: With Jane Smiley, Armistead Maupin, Ann Beattie, Edward Albee, and 14 Other Dog People | 
 enlarge | Creator: Michael J. Rosen
Publisher: Artisan
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 92520
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 1579653588
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7
EAN: 9781579653583
ASIN: 1579653588
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
What we love about our dogs.
Some of us just "feel incomplete without the company of a dog or two," as Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Edward Albee puts it in this timeless collection of great writing about dogs. In fact, millions of us wouldn't dream of living without dogs, none more so than the renowned dog-devoted authors of Dogs We Love. From Ann Beattie debating whether to upgrade from "occasional dog sitter" to full-time dog owner to Bob Shacochis fretting over how to welcome a second dog into a one-dog household, these 18 tributes convey with wit, insight, and passion the love that makes the bond between dogs and dog-people so powerful. Accompanied by the humorous, endearing photographs of Robin Schwartz, Dogs We Love gives image and voice to the enduring, undiluted emotions that our canine companions inspire.
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Charming--a collection of essays by good writers about their dogs November 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This small book contains essays as well as heart melting pictures of dogs. Mind you, these are real dogs, the kind who relentlessly continue to hunt for slippers and chew them to bits and bits, dogs who have problems like blindness and still--still--make us smile and love them.
As Cynthia Heimel reports "Let me see if I can say this without being a nasty booger-head. Some people are morbidly warped and don't like dogs at all. We shall not even discuss such deviants. Some people love only their own dogs...These people are dog-impaired...And then there are the dog-besotted, the dog-goofy, those lunatics who worship at the Holy Church of Canine" (p 95).
Each essay discusses some new and entertaining aspect of dogs and dog ownership. The yellow stains on the carpet. The drool. The big eyes that gaze into your with love.
A book to savor.
what could be better? GREAT writers, "training" their sights on their own dogs March 12, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a chunky, endearing, handsome book that's just confirms everything we most love about dogs. But these are MASTERS of prose here, as well as being "masters" of their family dogs. So just imagine the novelists and short story writers you love sharing stories of their own canine companions. Jane Smiley on her golden's insatiable fetching, Armistead Maupin on his dog's uncanny ability to interfere with anything romantic, Merrill Markoe on her small dog's undeniable love affair with her slipper. There's Danny Shanahan writing and illustrating a short guide on how to read your dog's behaviors. There's--well, there are sheep dogs, mixed bred wonders, Labs, bull dogs, unruly dogs, cockers, spaniels...and a pack of other dogs photographed in black and white by Robin Schwartz that make this book the perfect gift to give or keep. Plus the book's profits are part of Rosen's ongoing efforts to support animal welfare agencies.
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