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Also by Jon Katz:

Going Home, October 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Izzy & Lenore, October 2008
Hardcover
Dog Days, July 2007
Hardcover
A Good Dog, October 2006
Hardcover
Katz on Dogs, October 2005
Hardcover
A Dog Year, May 2003
Paperback

A Dog Year
Jon Katz

Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me

Random House Trade Paperbacks
May 2003
On Sale: May 6, 2003
240 pages
ISBN: 0812966902
EAN: 9780812966909
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

Sometimes, change comes on four legs.

In his popular and widely praised Running to the Mountain, Jon Katz wrote of the strength and support he found in the massive forms of his two yellow Labrador retrievers, Julius and Stanley. When the Labs were six and seven, a breeder who’d read his book contacted Katz to say she had a dog that was meant for him—a two-year-old border collie named Devon, well bred but high-strung and homeless. Katz already had a full canine complement—but, as he writes, “Change loves me. . . . It comes in all forms. . . . Sometimes, change comes on four legs.” Shortly thereafter he brought Devon home. A Dog Year shows how a man discovered much about himself through one dog (and then another), whose temperament seemed as different from his own as day from night. It is a story of trust and understanding, of life and death, of continuity and change. It is by turns insightful, hilarious, and deeply moving.

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