B. J. Hollars

From the Mouths of Dogs (eBook, ePUB)

What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of "man's best friend"? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars as he attempts to find out-beginning with an ancient dog cemetery in Ashkelon, Israel, and moving to the present day.Hollars's firsthand reports recount a range of stories: the arduous existence of a shelter officer, a woman's relentless attempt to found a senior-dog adoption facility, a family's struggle to create a one-of-a-kind orthotic for its bulldog, and the particular bond between a blind woman and her Seeing Eye dog. The book culminates with Hollars's own cross-country journey to Hartsdale Pet Cemetery-the country's largest and oldest pet cemetery-to begin the long-overdue process of laying his own childhood dog to rest.Through these stories, Hollars reveals much about our pets but even more about the humans who share their lives, providing a much-needed reminder that the world would be a better place if we took a few cues from man's best friends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803284913
• Artikelnr.: 44152148

Autorenporträt

B.J. Hollars is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of numerous books, including Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds (Nebraska, 2017), Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail  (Nebraska, 2021),  Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country (Nebraska, 2019), Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction (New Mexico, 2014), This Is Only a Test, From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human (Nebraska, 2015), and Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America. Hollars is also the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Prologue: Going to the Dogs
Part 1. Lessons Learned
1. Sniffing for Trouble
2. Old Dogs, New Shticks
3. Cruisin’ for a Bruiser
4. Follow the Leader
5. I Left My Heart in Hartsdale
Part 2. Lessons Lived
 6. Apollo’s Deed
 7. Bingo Was Her Name
 8. The Bionic Dog
 9. Letting Luna Lead
10. Travels with Sandy
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