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Dog Years audiobook

  • By: Mark Doty
  • Narrator: Mark Doty
  • Category: Dogs, General, Pets
  • Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 13, 2007
  • Language: English
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Dog Years Audiobook Summary

Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Mark Doty’s intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days. Their tenacity, loyalty, and love inspire him when all else fails.

Dog Years is a remarkable book: 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. Mark Doty writes about the heart-wrenching vulnerability of dogs, the positive energy and joy they bring, and the gift they bear us of unconditional love. A book unlike any other, Mark Doty’s surprising meditation is radiantly unsentimental yet profoundly affecting. Beautifully written, Dog Years is a classic in the making.

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Dog Years Audiobook Narrator

Mark Doty is the narrator of Dog Years audiobook that was written by Mark Doty

Mark Doty’s books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous 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. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.

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Narrator Mark Doty
Length 6 hours 14 minutes
Author Mark Doty
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date March 13, 2007
ISBN 9780061262517

Subjects

The publisher of the Dog Years is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Dogs, General, Pets

Additional info

The publisher of the Dog Years is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780061262517.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Lara

October 23, 2008

It would be redundant to say this book is "poetic." Mark Doty illuminates every subject he touches with the duality of hope and despair, love and loss. He resides in a world of metaphor, and for that reason he cuts into the difficult, the unsayable, with a blade of revelation. This is so much more than a dog book. We're given glimpses of a human life that is woven into and around the lifetime of two dogs. The immediacy that demands, the simplicity of love at its most basic and wild. He describes the little exact things that dogs do that unfence our hearts: the thump of their tails, the weight of their heads in our hands, the inexplicable joy of seeing them run ahead, tails aloft. I can't say enough about this beautiful elegy.

Inder

August 08, 2007

This is really a book about endless heartbreaking loss, which sounds pretty depressing, and it is. But you can't have joy and love without loss. Since I have gotten my dog, this basic vulnerability seems more clear and poignant than ever. When you really give your heart to an animal, you know you are setting yourself up for loss in the long run, but the experience of giving and receiving unconditional love is so worth it. I'm a sucker for a great dog memoir, and this one is especially lovely.

Kristen

January 07, 2016

This book is about the dreaded trifecta: grief, loneliness and depression. I believe people who have suffered have a silent stream running through them. I can speak to someone and know immediately if their soul and heart have been scarred by unspeakable grief/loss. It's such a tricky conversation to start but one that needs to happen for the slow process of healing to begin. And important to note: when you come out, you will forever be altered. The author does a good job of ripping open the lid about how low seemingly rational folks can go into oneself. Suffering alone is such a horribly lonely and dark place to be.

h

August 12, 2007

a beautiful memoir organized around the two retrievers in doty's life. doty is, by the way, one of the great contemporary american poets. this book contains everything that his best poems do: wit, humor, self-awareness, communal-awareness, philosophy, warmth, sorrow. i cannot recommend it highly enough. perhaps the great achievement of dog years is that it is emotional without being sentimental. it examines life and love without pretense or arrogance.

Patrick

June 14, 2014

There's a nice wandering quality to this memoir. Mr Doty meanders over poems, death, Provincetown, animal traits, anything and everything that his path crosses in this meditation upon dogs and their meaning to him (and to us, collectively). His deepest thoughts settle around mortality -- and I found it a good read. There are insights here which come as no great revelation to me, as a fellow dog guardian, but still feel important to read, ponder, and absorb. And some of the chapters are plain funny, like the adorable animals themselves.

Dorianne

November 02, 2007

Beautiful book, darkly lovely.

Jack

April 07, 2018

"Don't judge a book by its cover," indeed. I originally strayed away from this despite having a fierce adoration for Doty's poems and essays. Hearing him in conversation with Eileen Myles at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in 2017 gave me pause to reconsider -- on the heels of Myles' own dog-oriented memoir they spoke about "dog books" as market category, being poets/writers shoehorned into these Marley And Me-esque color schemes and precious narratives about what dogs do for us. Approaching "Dog Years" with this in mind (as well as the fact that, like, he's a poet -- so get ready to jump around between points and the timeline a bit) is endlessly beneficial. Doty is not heavy handed in discussing spirituality, and bypasses the needlessly precious. As much as his two dogs benefit him and his partners, the human role of the caregiver and benefactor is not forgotten. Thus we come full circle -- if such marketing techniques have allowed the poignancy and realism of Doty to be exposed to a general audience that wouldn't come otherwise, then it's all for the better. Also might bear mentioning that I have no interest in ever owning any variety of pet.

Marilyn

July 10, 2014

Exquisite. His powers of observation and ability to express them are stunning. He wrestles with grief in the way that one struck deeply by it must do. Why are we so unprepared for it? How does it change us? How do I go on?He loses his lover after a long illness but is sustained by the presence and physicality of their 2 dogs. The death of these dogs as well leads him to dark psychological places. He is a poet and writes of the illness and the death of these two dogs as carefully and familiarly as that of his lover. His losses are so very deeply felt and richly explored that you are able to mourn with him and it is the elucidation of mourning that is this book's gift. It's about dogs, yes, and wonderfully so, but it's really about loss and the grieving process. If you have had a wrenching personal loss you will recognize yourself in these pages and perhaps find some comfort. His healing process is gradual but real and leaves you hopeful.

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