Dog Years: A Memoir - Tapa dura

"Lyrical and sensitive...Doty poetically expresses what many have felt but few can articulate."--USA Today

"Doty pays loving tribute to two retrievers...DOG YEARS is a warm, thought-provoking discourse."--Entertainment Weekly

"Rather amazing...A profound reflection on hope, and a song of praise for the dead."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"This is Doty at his best....Doty does in fact make the unsayable sayable, bringing the ungraspable within our reach."--Los Angeles Times

"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

"Life-affirming, lyrical, and profoundly affecting...Only Mark Doty could have written a dog book...that covers so much ground."--Pam Houston, O magazine

"A wounding yet arresting memoir about living with his dogs...Doty's gorgeous prose and piercing meditations...are simply sublime."--Washington Post Magazine

"A meditation on how we can live with hope...Dog Years wrestles with the Big Questions."--Houston Chronicle

"Evocative, compassionate, a love story both intimate and grand, this is a beautiful book."--Amy Hempel

"A dazzling, tactile grasp of the world... both arresting and touching."--New York Times Book Review

A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief. By the author of Heaven's Coast and Firebird. 60,000 first printing.