Marley & Me Pb
John Grogan's memoir opens with a portrait of young love and fresh beginnings: a couple, a little house, and all the optimism that comes with starting out together. Then Marley arrives, a wriggling yellow puppy who promptly sets about dismantling everything in his path, and the real story begins. What follows is one of the most genuinely moving accounts of family life you're likely to read, anchored by a Labrador so spectacularly unruly he makes other badly behaved dogs look like monks. Ninety-seven pounds of chaos, Marley demolished screen doors, burrowed through walls, showered visitors in slobber, pilfered underwear, and treated sofas and jewellery alike as snacks. Obedience classes ended in expulsion. Veterinary-prescribed tranquilisers barely touched the sides. And yet, beneath all that destruction, his devotion was absolute. Marley was present for the couple's quiet joys and their private grief, for the arrival of children and the raw, frightening moments that life occasionally throws without warning. He once shut down an entire public beach and somehow found his way into a feature film, winning people over even as he caused havoc. What Grogan captures so well is the contradiction at the heart of it all: a dog who ignored every rule yet embodied loyalty without condition. It's funny, tender, and occasionally wrenching. Marley might have been an absolute handful, but his story asks a quietly serious question about where happiness actually comes from. The answer, it turns out, has muddy paws.
- Author: John Grogan
- Publisher: William Morrow
- Genre: Pet Care & Training
- ISBN: 978-0060817091
- Pages: 320 pages