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A dog walks into a nursing home lessons in the good life from an unlikely teacher

"A layabout mutt does a second act as a therapy dog working with the infirm and the aged, and fetches from that clarifying, life-and-death realm an inspiring sense of the core human virtues - love, fortitude, justice, charity, prudence, restraint, hope, and fun - and how to live them now.""--

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Main Author: Halpern, Sue
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013.
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Human-animal relationships.
Dogs > Therapeutic use.
Dogs > Training.
Halpern, Sue.
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Summary:"A layabout mutt does a second act as a therapy dog working with the infirm and the aged, and fetches from that clarifying, life-and-death realm an inspiring sense of the core human virtues - love, fortitude, justice, charity, prudence, restraint, hope, and fun - and how to live them now.""--
Physical Description:312 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781594487200 (hardback)
1594487200 (hardback)
Author Notes:Sue Halpern is the author of "Migrations to Solitude". Her work has appeared in "Granta", "The New York Review of Books", "The New York Times", "Audubon", "Mother Jones", "Rolling Stone", & "Orion", among other publications. She lives in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

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