Book description
Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly
behaved Labradors. Then into the mix comes Devon, who creates havoc
from the moment he arrives at the airport, when it takes Jon, two
baggage handlers and three police officers to track him down after he escapes.
Jon learns the hard way how to encourage Devon to behave. But
amongst the difficulties of their first year together, Jon discovers
his life is enlivened by a creature with so much mischievousness and
joie de vivre. In fact, Jon finds that he is to change as
much as Devon.
By turns insightful, hilarious and deeply moving, A Dog Year
is a delightful true story of the age-old bond between man and dog.
Jon Katz has written for the
New York Times
, the
Wall Street Journal
,
Rolling Stone
,
GQ
and other magazines as well as having a regular column about dogs and
rural life for online magazine Slate. He has written sixteen books, many
of them about dogs, and co-hosts an awardwinning radio show
Dog Talk
. After the period of this book, he moved to a farm in upstate New York
where he and his wife live together with their dogs, sheep, cows,
donkeys, a barn cat and four chickens. His website is www. bedlamfarm.
com.
