{"product_id":"dog-stories-for-the-soul-hardcover","title":"Dog Stories for the Soul - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMardi Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor dog lovers, this is as good as it gets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of stories represents the best dog stories ever told by some of America's most talented writers. The stories are inspirational, humorous, adventuresome, revealing, and filled with examples of mutual love and devotion. Some of the stories are true. Others are the invention of creative minds that know what it is like to love a dog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobel Prize winning author \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Steinbeck \u003c\/strong\u003ewrites about traveling the roads of America with his best friend, a French poodle named Charley. His loving relationship with Charley serves as a reminder of the roadblocks often inherent in human relationships. No doubt Steinbeck would have subscribed to humorist Will Rogers's observation that \"if there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.\" Steinbeck's story is an excerpt from his bestselling travel book \u003cem\u003eTravels with Charley\u003c\/em\u003e. For this book, Steinbeck's publisher allowed us to gather the dog stories from the travel book and present them in the order in which they were written so that they provide a continuing narrative of Steinbeck's relationship with his poodle, Charley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Twain's\u003c\/strong\u003e \"A Dog's Tale\" is a short story that first appeared in the December 1903 issue of \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. The story is told from the point of view of a loyal household pet that states in the first sentence, \"My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer \u003cem\u003eHarper's \u003c\/em\u003emagazine editor \u003cstrong\u003eWillie Morris \u003c\/strong\u003ewrites of growing up in Mississippi with his dog, Skip. The story was made into a major motion picture named \u003cem\u003eMy Dog Skip. \u003c\/em\u003eOf this story, the\u003cem\u003e Atlanta Journal-Constitution \u003c\/em\u003ewrites, \"Written with the gentle wisdom of an E. B. White and the eternal youth of a Huck Finn.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his hunting story, \"The Slough,\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew McKean\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/strong\u003e editor in chief of \u003cem\u003eOutdoor Life \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etells the heartbreaking and brilliantly written story of his last hunt with his beloved Willow. This tale of glory, love and loss will leave you in tears for a week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Story of a Marine Hero,\" \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author \u003cstrong\u003eMaria Goodavage\u003c\/strong\u003e introduces the reader to Lucca, a decorated and highly skilled U.S. Marine canine that fought alongside her handlers through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author \u003cstrong\u003eGarth Stein\u003c\/strong\u003e tells an intriguing story in \"The Demented Zebra\" of a sensitive and creative dog left home alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemphis Magazine \u003c\/em\u003emanaging editor \u003cstrong\u003eFrank Murtaugh\u003c\/strong\u003e writes about his childhood pet, Susie, who made him into the man that he is today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClarion-Ledger \u003c\/em\u003eeditorial cartoonist \u003cstrong\u003eMarshall Ramsey\u003c\/strong\u003e writes about the death of his family dog Banjo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52712527462707,"sku":"9781941644966","price":47.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UitId1ozdnlybTFKZTZPbEtUUDdwZz09.webp?v=1763524940","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dog-stories-for-the-soul-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}