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Book Review of Dog Years: A Memoir

Dog Years: A Memoir
Dog Years: A Memoir
Author: Mark Doty
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Hardcover
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A good book about loss and what having dogs to care for adds to life. Mr. Doty has a dog that he is told is headed for death. He goes and adopts another dog,not to replace his dying dog, but for a companion to his dying friend. The author has much to say about his feelings of death and life. He writes of the positive energy and joy they add to our lives. Our love for them and their dependence upon us carries us through the hardships we must face in this life. There are three deaths experienced by Mr. Doty in this book, yet he is able to go on living when he thinks he cannot.