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Come Back, Como: Winning The Heart Of A Reluctant Dog

AUTHOR Winn, Steven
PUBLISHER Harper Perennial (11/02/2010)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Como is Steven Winn's tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects the pet had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.

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ISBN-13: 9780061802584
ISBN-10: 0061802581
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 288
Carton Quantity: 22
Product Dimensions: 5.34 x 0.67 x 7.94 inches
Weight: 0.49 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Country of Origin: US
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Pets | Essays & Narratives
Pets | Dogs - Training & Showing
Pets | Horses
Dewey Decimal: 636.709
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Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Como is Steven Winn's tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects the pet had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.

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Author: Winn, Steven
Steven Winn is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer who spent many years as a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. A Philadelphia native and founding staff member of the Seattle Weekly, he held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, National Lampoon, the New York Times, Parenting, Prairie Schooner, Sports Illustrated, and the Utne Reader. He lives with his family in San Francisco.
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