Off the leash
Subtitle: a year at the dog park
By: Matthew Gilbert
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781250014221; 9781250014214; 9781250014573
Subjects: Anecdotes; Parks for dogs; Behavior; Dogs
Description: This is "a group portrait of dog people, specifically the strange, wonderful, neurotic, and eccentric dog people who gather at Amory Park, overlooking Boston near Fenway Park. And it's about author Matthew Gilbert's transformation, after much fear and loathing of dogs and social groups, into one of those dog people with fur on their jackets, squeaky toys in their hands, and biscuits in their pockets"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: "Thomas Dunne Books."
Table of contents: title: Fall. Backstories ; Sidewalk traffic ; The Purell Incident ; Pack of freaks; title: Winter. Dookie ; Caravan Margo ; Lesson learned ; The Charlottes ; The Chewy Project ; Dogs are dummies ; The dog Nazis; title: Spring. The R. Crumb cigar ; Cell phone lady ; Sparks ; We are Saul ; As the table turns ; Crushing; title: Summer. Departures ; Haters ; Clash of innocents ; Families of choice ; Outro.