The Speckled Beauty
A Dog and His People
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Speckled Beauty
I love to read Rick Braggs,being from the south ,it all makes so much sense.reading you can feel the heat humidity or mosquitos biting.You might shed a tear or chuckle some and I always want more. Thank you for this heart warming giggles included
Mischievous One
This book was like no other I have read! The antics that he found himself in was quite hilarious at times! I did enjoy and I highly recommend this book!
Loved it !
Great way of sayin things.