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| A Three Dog Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Abigail Thomas
Publisher: Harcourt
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 7697
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B00155GE4K
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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 A Life Well Told May 14, 2008
abigail Thomas lets us glimpse her life just when it's unraveling, and never tugs at our heart. what a funny, moving, and ultimately uplifting story of grief and adversity. Those dogs--- you just want to rub their heads. or,a s Thomas does so often, curl up with them for an afternoon nap. A wonderful book.
A book to read and re-read again!!!! April 28, 2008
This was my first Kindle book and I finished it within a couple days which is good for someone as busy as myself. A Three Dog Life is an easy read in which you find yourself laughing, crying, and unable to put down. I read when I only had minutes left on a lunch break, but a few paragraphs at a time was all I needed to keep pulling me through. It is a great book, and reminds us all of our human condition and how one woman dealt with the hand she was given. Beautiful and I could easily see this as a movie. I rarely read a book twice, but I know I could easily go right back and re-read. There is a lot to say for that! Get this book, read it, you won't be sorry!
A Lovely Book of Elegant Prose April 26, 2008
The first word that comes to my mind when I finished this book is elegant. It is very elegant and lyrical. It is written with a wry sense of self and with gentle humor. I love memoirs if they are well-written and without a sense of whining that a lot of authors tend to do while writing about their lives. This book has no sense of whining nor self-pity. It just is. It happened and it just is.
This is an accounting of a woman who comes onto the street to see her husband lying there with his head literally cracked open. Her life has changed in that instant. Her husband, Rich, had been walking the dog when the dog broke free and went into the heavy traffic. Rich chased him only to be run down by a car. His short-term memory was lost and in the five years after, Thomas writes about various things relating to her relationship with her husband. She writes about grieving. She writes about her dogs and how they've helped her remain sane. She writes about moving to live closer to the long-term facility where Rich lives. She writes poignantly about life, love, grief, acceptance and joy.
This is by far the least depressing memoir I have ever read. It is beautiful, achingly so. I would have never picked up this book if it weren't for my parents who sent it home with me. I have never really heard of it. If you like memoirs, you will love this one. Even if you're not a fan of memoirs, you will still like this one simply because of the elegant essays she has written. And you will find that you relate to them simply because you are human.
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Good book March 21, 2008
If you like memoirs you will love this one. I certainly did. The author's style makes very real the feelings she is sharing. Her observations of her life , it's unexpected turn, and her honest reactions to that are not sentimental, rather one's the reader can truly identify with. She alows herself to be honest and vulnerable.
Beautifully written March 18, 2008
Abigal Thomas has a beautiful way of writing that will make you laugh and cry. She is brutally honest about all of the emotions she felt during a difficult and tragic time in her life. I plan to read all of her books.
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