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Dog Years: A Memoir

by Mark Doty

HarperCollins. 2007. 224p. ISBN 9780061171000. $23.95; pap. ISBN 9780061171017. $13.99; ebk. ISBN 9780061842436.

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Poet and essayist Doty's memoir combines elegy, prose, and criticism to describe the 16 years shared with the two dogs that completed the family he created with his dying partner. His style is complex, formal, and never sentimental as he compares his dogs' decline with the concurrent human losses in his life. (LJ 1/07)

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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