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Loading... A Three Dog Life (original 2006; edition 2007)by Abigail Thomas
Work InformationA Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas (2006)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I was delighted with this little volume - could not put it down until I finished it. Honest, creative approach to telling of a devastating event and living with the aftermath, but having experienced something like this in my life, I was very impressed with the author's ability to capture her feelings and thoughts in words on the page. Very difficult to do. ( ) no reviews | add a review
When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institution. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the accident: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it. No library descriptions found. |
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