A heartbreaking tribute to a difficult dog, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dog Year and A Home for Rose
Jon Katz has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, GQ and other magazines as well as having a regular column about dogs and rural life for online magazine Slate. He has written sixteen books, including Sunday Times bestsellers A Dog Year and A Home for Rose, and co-hosts an awardwinning radio show Dog Talk. His website is www.bedlamfarm.com.
Jon Katz understands dogs as few others do, intuitively and
unburdened by sentimentality. His keen insights cut to the heart of
the human-pet relationship - its immense joys and painful sorrows.
With wisdom and grace, he unlocks the canine soul and the
complicated wonders that lie within and offers powerful inights to
anyone who has ever struggled with, and loved, a troubled
animal
*John Grogan, author of MARLEY AND ME*
Like John Grogan's Marley and Me, A Good Dog shows how the
intersection of canine and human can bsometimes result in profound
love - as well as profound frustration ... A heartbreaking love
story
*USA Today*
We should all have such a companion
*Washington Globe*
[A] loving tribute to that once-in-a-lifetime dog
*Library Journal*
Barking, lunging and nipping at visitors, terrorizing school buses and crashing through a window screen to pursue a cat in a neighbor's house, the hero of this absorbing, if melodramatic, memoir hardly seems a good dog. But Orson's fangs are firmly set in the heart of dog journalist Katz (The Dogs of Bedlam Farm), who tries everything to soothe his frenzy-acupuncture, chiropractic, "Shen calming herbs from China," sessions with a "shamanic soul retriever"-then moves to a farm where the border collie's native sheep-herding instincts might flourish. Ultimately, the therapeutic benefit accrues to the author, who finds in Orson a "soul mate" who saved him from mid-life crisis in the New Jersey suburbs and brought him to an ecstatic communion with nature. Katz's flagrant anthropomorphizing and his intense emotional involvement ("I was nearly crying with frustration, torn by my growing love for this dog") and heart-to-hearts with Orson ("[w]e can't go on this way," he sobs after a school-bus incident) will resonate with dog lovers, while perhaps puzzling others. When he Katz gets some psychological distance, though, his subtle, evocative descriptions of the beasts around him-including Rose, another border collie whose brilliant herding steals the show-vividly capture the fascinating, enigmatic lives of animals. Photos. (Sept. 26) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Jon Katz understands dogs as few others do, intuitively and
unburdened by sentimentality. His keen insights cut to the heart of
the human-pet relationship - its immense joys and painful sorrows.
With wisdom and grace, he unlocks the canine soul and the
complicated wonders that lie within and offers powerful inights to
anyone who has ever struggled with, and loved, a troubled animal --
John Grogan, author of MARLEY AND ME
Like John Grogan's Marley and Me, A Good Dog shows
how the intersection of canine and human can bsometimes result in
profound love - as well as profound frustration ... A heartbreaking
love story * USA Today *
We should all have such a companion * Washington Globe *
[A] loving tribute to that once-in-a-lifetime dog * Library Journal
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