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Drinking With Miss Dutchie: A Memoir (2011)

by Ed Breslin(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312619758 (ISBN13: 9780312619756)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: A beautiful meditation on what it's like to love and be loved by a dog."On that lonely walk our mood was reminiscential, our attitude grateful. Neither of us could say enough about how much joy and fun and cohesion and increased love and affection Dutchie had brought into our lives. This magnificent little dog had brought me out of myself and into life, all by herself, with just her voracious grasp of how much life itself could be worth living fully, when fully aware, and not while chemically altered and riven with depression."And let's face it, it's a memoir that includes a dog, so I'm not revealing much when I share this:"I kept flashing on her grinning even wider and thrashing her tail even harder the second time Bill Perkins entered the room with the big hypodermic c... morelutched in his hand. She was just so happy to see him, despite her spine being snapped, despite being a paraplegic, despite being engaged in taking her last rasping breaths on earth, thanks to laryngeal paralysis. Right to the end she was magnificent, still sucking the joy out of every living moment, still savoring the now, still availing herself of an opportunity to interact with love and affection with another living being, in this case a lethal vet. Until her final moments she was still setting an example for me, still teaching me how to live, and this time how to die."
review 2: Won this in a Goodreads giveaway and just started it. So far so good, even though my heart is freshly lacerated by the tale of Ed Breslin losing his dog Miss Dutchy (not a spoiler - he tells us this right at the beginning).Just finished. Anyone who has ever lost a well loved pet will relate. Not sure it's for eveyone though. I hesitate to reccomend it to my husband, who sobbed through Marley and Me and didn't watch the ending.I like how open the writer is. He tells us all about depression and alcoholism in additiopn to his story of how loving Miss Dutchie saved him. less

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