The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People (Signed/First Edition)

Bragg, Rick

ISBN 10: 0525658815 / ISBN 13: 9780525658818

Published by Knopf, 2021

About this Item

Signed. First Edition. Signed bookplate affixed by the publisher. Unread, unclipped, and unmarked. Additional images available upon request. (see attached photos).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1765061537360

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People (Signed/First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525658815
• ISBN 13: 9780525658818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.

Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions.

Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.

About the Author

RICK BRAGG is the author of ten books, including the best-selling Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin'. He is also a regular contributor to Southern Living and Garden & Gun. He lives in Alabama.