The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0525658815
ISBN13:9780525658818
Release Date:September 2021
Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Great Book!
Published by misskitty , 10 months ago
I have read this book over and over at least a dozen times! It was just wonderful! A dog and his people. From the very beginning when "Speck" came to them, to the very end, it was funny, sad, happy, exciting...so many words to say. If you are looking for a book about a dog and the family that took him in you will love this true story!
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