{"product_id":"dog-years-a-memoir-isbn-9780061171017","title":"Dog Years: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Israel Fishman-Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing.\" -- \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau bounds back into life. Before long, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDog Years\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant, intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about living, love, and loss. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWhen Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau bounds back into life. Before long, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDog Years\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant, intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about living, love, and loss. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Evocative, compassionate, a love story both intimate and grand, this is a beautiful book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Hempel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Frankly and beautifully told…DOG YEARS respects Beau’s and Arden’s singularity.  Doty describes them lovingly, with poetic specificity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Freeman, Newark Star Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By turns, comic, heartwarming, sentimental (in the very best way) and ultimately heartbreaking.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKen Munger, Sacramento News and Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Potent and expressive...The weight of Doty’s adoration for his pets is expressed with...eloquence throughout.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tender and amusing…Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I was charmed, moved, often fascinated…Doty manages to make inner lives just a little more knowable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A dazzling, tactile grasp of the world... both arresting and touching.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Poignant, intelligent, and quite simply superb.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Life-affirming, lyrical, and profoundly affecting…Only Mark Doty could have written a dog book...that covers so much ground.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePam Houston, O magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lyrical and sensitive…Doty poetically expresses what many have felt but few can articulate.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A great poet can break your heart, sometimes with a single line.  Mark Doty proves it twice over….Utterly unforgettable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePalm Beach Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A meditation on how we can live with hope…Dog Years wrestles with the Big Questions.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wounding yet arresting memoir about living with his dogs…Doty’s gorgeous prose and piercing meditations...are simply sublime.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Doty pays loving tribute to two retrievers…DOG YEARS is a warm, thought-provoking discourse.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No human has ever loved his animals as Mark Doty has…Doty possesses a particular brilliance...[A] stirring chronicle of love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is Doty at his best....Doty does in fact make the unsayable sayable, bringing the ungraspable within our reach.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A tender reflection on love and loss, this is MARLEY \u0026amp; ME for the cerebral.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Doty delivers a soulful love story which illuminates...the big human mysteries…As intellectually evocative as it is emotionally resonant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rather amazing...A profound reflection on hope, and a song of praise for the dead.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“DOG YEARS points out what is...magical about life with animals…A...twinkling landscape of the human heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Doty writes unsentimentally but affectingly about the solace and companionship dogs provide...the hope...they bring into a home.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Doty is at his best…exploring the mirrorlike quality of a dog’s gaze or the inextricable duality of hope and despair..” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elegantly written . . . 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