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A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Retail When Abigail Thomas’s husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu­tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci­dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it. ** From Publishers Weekly Stephen King's front-cover endorsement of Thomas's memoir as the best he's ever read—and a "punch to the heart"—will surely pique interest in this wrenching, elegiac portrait of her third husband, Rich, who flounders in a miasmic present after a hit-and-run in their Manhattan neigh

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Abigail Thomas
Publisher
Mariner Books
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780753823767
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Body Mind & Spirit, Fiction, Memoir
Rating
4 / 5 (1,822 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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