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BookBrowse Reviews Dog Years: A remarkable work: a moving and intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss.

Dog Years
A Memoir
by Mark Doty
Paperback, Apr 2008,
256 pages.
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Doty brought Beau home in 1994 when his longtime partner, Wally Roberts, was dying of AIDS. Mistaking Beau's post-operative drugged stupor (he'd just been neutered) for a calm temperament suitable for both Wally and Arden, their mature and gentlemanly black Labrador, Doty brings 3-year-old Beau (a golden retriever) home and within moments Beau shows his true colors and total lack of training - jumping on to Wally's bed, licking his face exuberantly and devouring his lunch. Thus begins a love affair between man and dogs. After Wally's death, it is the dogs' insistent demands that life go on - meals served, walks taken and affection reciprocated - that provides Doty with the anchor he needs to see him through his desperate despair.  As time passes...
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Mark Doty's seven books of poetry and three books of nonfiction prose have been honored with distinctions including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize.

He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library....
This review was originally published in March 2007, and has been updated for the April 2008 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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