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Title	:	A Three Dog Life
Author	:	Abigail Thomas
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 190 pages
Published	:	2007 by Harcourt, Inc. (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Animals. Dogs. Biography

A Three Dog Life Paperback | Pages: 190 pages

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When Abigail Thomas’s husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu­tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci­dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it.

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Original Title:	A Three Dog Life
ISBN:	0297852841 (ISBN13: 9780297852841)
Edition Language:	English

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This book made me think about why I read. It also made me examine my life a little too. When I first started with the story, I was not sure I really wanted to continue reading it, but I had started. (It is hard for me to abandon books.) I am glad I did not give up on Abigail's story.I read because I want to find out things. I am interested in just about anything and if I learn something about a person, a place or a thing, and if the book, or magazine, or news article teaches me something I am a

Note: I listened to the audio version of this bookThis profoundly beautiful story traces the changes in a middle-aged couple's lives after the husband sustains a traumatic brain injury... because he cannot remember his life before, his wife Abigail (author and narrator) reaches across and joins him in his new world. Following her husband's accident (he was tragically hit by a car while out walking the dog), Abigail begins to live alone with their dogs while her husband lives in an assisted

Suffering is the finest teacher. It teaches you details. This excellent quote sums up what Abigail Thomas has learned in the power that is found in living a grateful life. She was faced with a truly life-altering blow and learned to appreciate what she still had vs mourning what was lost. Ms Thomas is honest with her readers. This isnt easy. There are always those moments of tender loss that catch our hearts unaware and draw forth pangs. But for the most part, she has chosen her attitude and it

Abigail Thomas's husband Rich sustained a brain injury after they had been married for 13 years. His ability to process new (or retain old) information was almost entirely destroyed. Thomas describes the stages of grief and self-doubt she experienced after her husband's accident. And the tremendous simplicity of these stages is what makes them so beguiling: the abstract concept of losing your husband -- of your husband essentially dying but continuing to live -- is one that on the surface seems

Abigail Thomas's husband of 13 years was hit by a car and suffered a traumatic brain injury, leaving him without any short term memory and unable to process most normal conversation. This is her memoir of coping with this tragedy.I'm not going to pretend that this is a "fun" book to read, although sometimes it is. Ms. Thomas has a dry, self-deprecating wit that you can't resist.However, I will say that this is one of the most beautiful memoirs I've read in some time. Every simple, spare sentence

Heartbreaking and life-affirming at the same time This memoir hit close home, as our family's life also changed following a severe stroke my mom suffered and which left her disabled. My dad and I were her caregivers for ten years. Five months ago, she passed away. A heartbreaking, life-affirming memoir of a relationship between Abigail and her husband, Rich, following his severe brain injury. Abigail has to adapt to life where Rich doesn't have a past, only the present. She opens up her heart,

Abigail and her husband Rich lived happily in Manhattan. On April 24, 2000 while Rich is out walking their dog, he is hit by a car and sustains a traumatic brain injury. His skull was shattered, his perception of time and reality forever altered. After being hospitalized, Rich is moved to a home where they had experience caring for people with traumatic brain injuries.Abigail lives alone with her 3 dogs and visits Rich regularly but she never knows from one day to the next how she will find him.