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The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People about?
A warm-hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved half blind stray dogSpeck 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, 76 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 him lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the Rose of...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rick Bragg
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Category
- humor
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (2,576 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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