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Pretzel, Houdini & Olive: Essays on the Dogs of My Life

Pretzel, Houdini & Olive: Essays on the Dogs of My Life

Thompson, Deborah

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ISBN10: 1597098566
ISBN13: 9781597098564
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Told from the perspective of a self-identified crazy dog lady, these eleven interconnected essays follow one woman's relations with five different dogs. Together, they travel over terrain spanning her husband's battle with cancer, his death, her grieving process, and her rejoining the living as her dogs lead her forward from the other end of their leashes. Alongside her personal story, she considers such cultural issues as Americans' unhealthy relationships with the natural world, ageism across species, poverty and privilege, hoarding, and the meaning of happiness. This is not a sentimental who-rescued-whom? book about the healing power of animals. Instead, it explores one representative human's relationships with dogs, with all their joys but also their frustrations, neuroses, and downright craziness.

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