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Dog Years.(Brief article)(Book review)

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"No dog has ever said a word," Doty writes in this memoir of his retrievers, Arden and Beau, "but that doesn't mean they live outside the world of speech." Acting as an "interpreter," which he calls "part of the pet owner's work," Doty traces his relationship with his dogs from 1994, when his partner died, of AIDS, through five peripatetic years when he was a guest professor at various colleges, to the dogs' final days, in New York around ...

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