Dog Walks into a Nursing Home Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

Name: Dog Walks into a Nursing Home Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
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ISBN: 9781594632693

ISBN-10: 1594632693

ISBN-13: 9781594632693

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Authors: Sue Halpern

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A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash--er, lease--on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an unerring moral compass. In the unlikely sounding arena of a public nursing home, she led her teammate into a series of encounters with the residents that revealed depths of warmth, humor, and insight Halpern hadn't expected. And little by little,…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Sue Halpern is the author of "Migrations to Solitude". Her work has appeared in "Granta", "The New York Review of Books", "The New York Times", "Audubon", "Mother Jones", "Rolling Stone", & "Orion", among other publications. She lives in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.