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Drinking with Miss Dutchie by Ed Breslin audiobook

Drinking with Miss Dutchie: A Memoir

By Ed Breslin
Read by Grover Gardner

Blackstone Publishing
5.62 Hours • Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9781441776228

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When Ed Breslin bought a new dog, Miss Dutchie, he wasn’t expecting his beloved pet to help him beat alcoholism. But caring for Miss Dutchie completely transformed Ed’s outlook on life. The unconditional love Miss Dutchie and Ed shared was a crucial incentive to overcoming his devastating addiction, and this moving story speaks to anyone who has ever loved a dog or battled their own personal demons.

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Summary

Summary

When Ed Breslin bought a new dog, Miss Dutchie, he wasn’t expecting his beloved pet to help him beat alcoholism. But caring for Miss Dutchie completely transformed Ed’s outlook on life.

The unconditional love Miss Dutchie and Ed shared was a crucial incentive to overcoming his devastating addiction, and this moving story speaks to anyone who has ever loved a dog or battled their own personal demons.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“She ‘taught me more about life than any teacher I ever had,’ Breslin writes, ‘and she never said a word.’ Breslin is just the man to find those words. Grover Gardner narrates with the consummate skill of an AudioFile Golden Voice.” —AudioFile
“A sweet, sad tribute to that purest of all relationships.” —Los Angeles Times
“A Labrador retriever taught Breslin more about life than any teacher had…His hymn to Miss Dutchie is heartwarming and heartbreaking.” —Booklist
“Dutchie is as clearly drawn as any literary figure, and Breslin’s love and gratitude toward her are palpable.” —Library Journal
“Breslin writes intensely and emotionally about psychic pain, grief, and the loss of friends and dogs.” —Publishers Weekly
“A moving story of love, death, and recovery.” —Kirkus Reviews
“So pleasurable to read that it almost overcomes the underlying pain and loss at its heart.” —Robert Stone, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National Book Award
“Half elegy, half life lessons, Breslin’s book eulogizes a great-hearted Labrador retriever who taught her master the joy of living.” —Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way
“An intense book, a real page turner, one of the best and also one of the most unusual, celebrating the human-animal bond. It’s the kind of book that one remembers for a very long time.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs

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Author Bio: Ed Breslin

Author Bio: Ed Breslin

Ed Breslin (a.k.a. E. B. Cross) is a former editor and publisher who spent two decades in the book business. He now writes and edits full time. He lives with his wife in New York City and in the Hudson River Valley.

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Available Formats : CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 5.62
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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