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Book

Gizelle's bucket list : my life with a very large dog

Call Number

  • 636.7 W345 (OSH)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Physical Description

vii, 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Summary

"A lightbeat, epic account of how the 20-something author brought her giant English Mastiff to her first tiny New York apartment after college, while navigating boyfriends, first jobs, her mother's illness and a bucket list that involves her dog's participation"--NoveList.

Contents

  • Part I. Enchanted. A big puppy
  • Sisterhood
  • Making lists
  • Manhattan
  • Times scare
  • Working girl
  • Meet a boy
  • The dog park
  • The limp
  • Road trip
  • The discovery
  • Part II. The bucket list. The dock
  • A dog's list
  • The leaves turn
  • A snowfall
  • Let go
  • Run
  • Epilogue: Carry it with you.

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