You Tell Your Dog First

by Alison Pace

Overview

You Tell Your Dog First…

About the date you just had…about the questionable results of a medical test…about the good and the bad…about everything.

For years, award-winning author Alison Pace was a dog person without a dog. And then, she got Carlie—a feisty and fluffy West Highland white terrier. She could weed out bad boyfriends with a sniff of her button-black nose and win the hearts of lifelong friends with an adoring gaze. Suddenly, Alison had a constant companion and confidante, who went with her on long morning rambles in Central Park, on trips to the country and the beach, and on her search for inner peace, love, and happiness. Through Carlie, Alison found herself connected to the world as never before.

With her trademark warmth, wit and humor, Alison shares her stories…the tales of a dog person who found her dog.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101612248
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/06/2012
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	861 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alison Pace is the author of the novels If Andy Warhol Had A Girlfriend, Pug Hill, Through Thick And Thin, City Dog, and A Pug’s Tale.  Her essays have appeared in several anthologies including Howl: A Collection Of The Best Contemporary Dog Wit. She lives in New York City where she is at work on another book.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Alison Pace's You Tell Your Dog First is a collection of heartwarming, soul-filling, funny and eerily relatable pooch inspired essays. This book is a great gift for dog lovers and those that want to understand them better. I loved this book."

-Julie Klam, New York Times bestselling author of You Had Me at Woof

"A remarkably sweet and affecting tale of inner growth."
(Kirkus Reviews on PUG HILL )

"Smart and witty."
(Library Journal on PUG HILL )

"Endearing...craftily portraying the balancing act between work and play, family (be it four-legged or two) and friends, and food and fasting."
(Publishers Weekly on THROUGH THICK AND THIN )

Editorial Reviews

"Alison Pace's You Tell Your Dog First is a collection of heartwarming, soul-filling, funny and eerily relatable pooch inspired essays. This book is a great gift for dog lovers and those that want to understand them better. I loved this book."

-Julie Klam, New York Times bestselling author of You Had Me at Woof

"A remarkably sweet and affecting tale of inner growth."

(Kirkus Reviews on PUG HILL )

"Smart and witty."

(Library Journal on PUG HILL )

"Endearing...craftily portraying the balancing act between work and play, family (be it four-legged or two) and friends, and food and fasting."

(Publishers Weekly on THROUGH THICK AND THIN )

From the Publisher

A popular writer whose fiction often features dogs (A Pug's Tale, 2011, etc.) lets fans in on the events in her life that served as inspiration. Pace's 2008 novel City Dog starred her beloved Carlie, a West Highland white terrier who is also pictured on the cover of this memoir. When she was 29, a confirmed New Yorker with two published novels under her belt, the author decided that, while she would like to find the man of her dreams, what she wanted most was a dog to share her life. Coming from a suburban home in Long Island filled with canines, this was not too surprising. Her family was so seriously into dogs, she writes, that when they gathered for holidays, the stories they would share were all about their pets; she still dates major events by which dogs they had at any given time. A feature writer with an advance on a third novel, she was working from home and able to care for a dog even in a city apartment. The first hurdle was finding a rental apartment that accepted pets, near enough to Central Park for dog-walking. That done, Pace settled on a 13-month-old Westie trained to be a show dog but disqualified by bow legs. Carlie quickly became the center of her besotted new owner's life. The author shares her experiences accustoming a nervous pet to city living, taking her along to social events and vetting prospective suitors based on how they hit it off with Carlie. Stranger-than-fiction moments include the discovery that another neighborhood Westie and Carlie were half siblings and the author's encounter in the park with a fellow Westie owner who became her therapist. A charming memoir about the special joys of having a pet and the ups and downs of single living.

Kirkus Reviews