Book description
What started as an ode to Quindlen's aging black Labrador in her
Newsweek column has become a life-affirming short book about
happiness, in the tradition of A SHORT GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE and BEING
PERFECT.
In this wise little book, Anna Quindlen writes: "The life of a
good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter, more
compressed." Quindlen continues, with her trademark wonderful
writing, sound wisdom and humor, to explain how her life has unfolded
in tandem with Beau, and how she's learned how to enjoy life, in the
simplest of ways, by watching him.
She writes, "When I was a mixed-breed puppy, I could never have
imagined how simple and basic contentment could be. And that's what
I've learned from watching Beau: to roll with the punches, to take
things as they come, to measure myself not in terms of the past or the
future but of the present, to raise my nose in the air from time to
time and, at least metaphorically, holler, "I smell bacon!"
Anna Quindlen is the author of five novels, six nonfiction books and
two children's books (THE TREE THAT CAME TO STAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER).
Her
New York Times
column "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
Her column now appears every other week in
Newsweek.
Anna Quindlen lives in New York.
