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    Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog

    Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog

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    by Steven Winn


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      ISBN-13: 9780061959318
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Publication date: 09/29/2009
    • Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 288
    • Sales rank: 371,241
    • File size: 583 KB

    Steven Winn is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer who spent many years as a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. A Philadelphia native and founding staff member of the Seattle Weekly, he held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, National Lampoon, the New York Times, Parenting, Prairie Schooner, Sports Illustrated, and the Utne Reader. He lives with his family in San Francisco.

    Table of Contents

    Prologue: On the Loose 1

    1 How It Didn't Begin 5

    2 Life Cycles 21

    3 The Other Dogs in the Room 35

    4 Buon Compleanno-Happy Birthday 49

    5 A Spirit Possession 57

    6 Home Makeover 73

    7 Escape Clause 89

    8 The Parable of the PowerBar 105

    9 Starting to Surrender 119

    10 Basic Training 135

    11 A Social Life 149

    12 The Fugitive 165

    13 Crossing Town 181

    14 The Magic Kingdom 197

    15 Cage-Free 215

    16 Z 231

    17 The Lake, the Beach, and the Bluff 247

    Coda: The Dog at the Door 263

    Acknowledgments 271

    What People are Saying About This

    Adam Gopnik

    “Even people who don’t much care for dogs, and I am one, will be moved and entertained by Steven Winn’s story of pursuit and rejection and renewed pursuit between man and pooch. Its real subject, transcending species, is the struggle for understanding between minds and hearts.”

    Amy Tan

    “A delightful story about the joys and deeper meanings dogs bring into our lives.”

    David Thomson

    As a man owned by a dog, I read this book with delight, merriment, and deep sympathy. And when I reached the most touching parts, there was my dog’s head, in my lap — he knew I had a heart all along.

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    Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Como is Steven Winn’s tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects the pet had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.

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    Amy Tan
    A delightful story about the joys and deeper meanings dogs bring into our lives.
    Adam Gopnik
    Even people who don’t much care for dogs, and I am one, will be moved and entertained by Steven Winn’s story of pursuit and rejection and renewed pursuit between man and pooch. Its real subject, transcending species, is the struggle for understanding between minds and hearts.
    David Thomson
    As a man owned by a dog, I read this book with delight, merriment, and deep sympathy. And when I reached the most touching parts, there was my dog’s head, in my lap — he knew I had a heart all along.
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