People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Ostensibly, Nick Duerden is a cat person, so the acquisition of a family dog in his late forties takes him by surprise. The border terrier, Missy, is in part a therapeutic aid, the idea being that she will get Nick out of the house after a long period of ill health and back into the wider, sociable world.

Unexpectedly, it works. There cannot be many opportunities in midlife to suddenly find yourself connecting with both hopeful young actor types and widowed octogenarians, a verbose existentialist Russian dissident and a stoned martial arts enthusiast, a bulldog with a basketball and a self-proclaimed animal mystic, but this is what Missy, and the daily walk around the park, provides. (Incidentally, she saves marriages, too.)

People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs is about connection and friendship, love and loss, the vagaries of midlife and the deep solace that comes from an enduring relationship. It is about finding yourself when for too long you have been lost, and how even when horizons draw in, plenty of adventure still awaits.