Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) A Memoir - from the bestselling author of 'The Book Thief'
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Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) A Memoir - from the bestselling author of 'The Book Thief'

by Markus Zusak

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2025-01-23

Overview

<p>'Truthful – and often very funny – this is as true a book about a dog as you will find' – <i>The Telegraph</i><br><br><b>In this poignant, funny and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, bestselling author of <i>The Book Thief</i>, tells of his family’s adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs <i>–</i> a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible of animals family.</b><br><br>What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs – Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, beautiful, deadly; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm?<br><br>The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, public shamings, property trashing, bodily injuries, stomach pumping, purest comedy, and carnage that needs to be seen to be believed . . . not to mention the odd police visit at some ungodly hour.<br><br>There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love – and the joy and recognition of family. <i>Three Wild Dogs (and the truth)</i> is a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty straight to our doors and into our lives, and change us forever.<br><br>'Funny and charming . . . A stirring tale of the bond that can form between human and hound' – <i>The Times</i><br><br>* <i>The Book Thief </i>was a bestseller from March 2006, and was on the <i>New York Times </i>bestseller list for over 500 weeks. </p>

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