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| Author: Anna Quindlen
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 9342
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400067138
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5403
EAN: 9781400067138
ASIN: 1400067138
Publication Date: November 20, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Much less than I'd expect of Anna Quindlen April 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my husband as part of the grieving process after our 14-year-old black lab died. I expected Anna Quindlen's usual wisdom and frankly I was disappointed. The text was very short; not enough in quantity or quality to justify a book in my opinion. Worse, every page featured those awful cutesy stockhouse dog photos that seem the antithesis of the honest and straight style I expected based on reading her wise columns in the NY Times for many years. The book came across as a celebrity milking something very thin for some extra cash. Come on, Anna, you can do a lot better than this!
 Sweet April 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think she is such a wonderful author and love her books. This was yet another treasure.
Book review April 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Loved this book - sounded just like what we went through with our yellow lab. Quick read - heartwarming.
Touches the heart March 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The daycare I take my lab to recommended this book in a newsletter. This is a book that all dog lovers/owners should read. It's a great book to pick up for a quick coffee break read. I'd recommend it as a great gift for the dog lovers in your life.
 A Puppy for the Kids March 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book at breakfast this morning. There are lots of pictures of very cute dogs, so it is a very quick read. I think I should have known what it was about though before I gave it to my aged mother. Quindlen's comparison of the journey of aging dogs and their owners to a person aging gracefully might be better appreciated by those earlier on in the journey.
There is a wonderful passage in the book that I wish every parent would read. Of course as a dog lover, I am biased.
"Sometimes people tell me that their children are begging for a puppy, and that they won't be fooled into going along because they know, they know that the kids say they will train the dog, walk the dog, feed and brush and tend the dog, but they won't. Well, of course they won't. Any parents who believe that they themselves will not wind up walking the dog most, if not all, of the time-especially in a downpour or a sleet storm-are parents who will also believe that there is no homework over the winter break and that the cigarettes belonged to someone else. For children, the point of have a dog is something like the point of having a mother and father. Our job is not to do but to be, not to act but to exist. We are bedrock, scenery, landscape, to be often ignored and then clung to during difficult or frightening or, occasionally, happy times. My mom, my dad, my dog, my home, immutable, to leave and then to return to at will and leave again."
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