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Best-selling Author Jon Katz Discussing "A GOOD DOG: THE STORY OF ORSON, WHO CHANGED MY LIFE"
In A GOOD DOG Jon Katz tells the story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border collie–who is intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable…...From the moment Katz and Orson meet, when the dog springs from his traveling crate at Newark airport and panics the baggage claim area, their relationship is deep, stormy, and loving. At two years old, Katz’s new companion is a great herder of school buses, a scholar of refrigerators, but a dud at herding sheep. Everything Katz attempts–obedience training, herding instruction, a new name, acupuncture, herb and alternative therapies–helps a little but not enough, and not for long.
While Katz is trying to help his dog, Orson is helping him, shepherding him toward a new life on a two-hundred-year-old hillside farm in upstate New York. There, aided by good neighbors and a tolerant wife, hip-deep in sheep, chickens, donkeys, and more dogs, the man and his canine companion explore meadows, woods, and even stars, wade through snow, bask by a roaring wood stove, and struggle to keep faith with each other. There, with deep love, each embraces his unfolding destiny.
A GOOD DOG is a book to savor... Just as Orson was the author’s lifetime dog, his story is a lifetime treasure–poignant, timeless, and powerful…
Jon Katz has written fifteen books—six novels and nine works of nonfiction—including A Dog Year, The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, The New Work of Dogs, and Katz on Dogs. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, he writes a column about dogs for the online magazine Slate, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, GQ, and the AKC Gazette. He co-hosts an award-winning show, Dog Talk, on Northeast Public Radio. Katz lives on Bedlam Farm with his wife, Paula Span, and his dogs, sheep, donkeys, barn cat, irritable rooster Winston, and three hens.
Buy A GOOD DOG: THE STORY OF ORSON, WHO CHANGED MY LIFE now from Amazon.com!
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