Old Dogs Are the Best Dogs

Name: Old Dogs Are the Best Dogs
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ISBN: 9781416534990

ISBN-10: 1416534997

ISBN-13: 9781416534990

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael S. Williamson, Gene Weingarten

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The memories that people have of dogs they have loved and lost are almost always of the animal in his final years; somehow, those are the images we treasure most. There is a reason. Old dogs can be rheumy-eyed and grump, gray of muzzle, graceless of gait, eccentric of habit, pimply, wheezy, lazy, lumpy. But that is not the whole of him. The old dog is resolute. He is canny. He is noble. She is funny, and seems to know it. She is sweetly vulnerable. He has character and dignity and an elegance of bearing that belies his circumstances, and above all, he seems at peace. You'd call that wisdom, if it didn't sound so silly. Old Dogs is a portrait book featuring 60 classic black and white…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 10/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 7.37" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Gene Weingarten is a nationally syndicated humor columnist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Washington Post. He lives in Washington, DC.