“Tender and amusing…Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing.” (The New Yorker )“Life-affirming, lyrical, and profoundly affecting…Only Mark Doty could have written a dog book...that covers so much ground.” (Pam Houston, O magazine )“Potent and expressive...The weight of Doty’s adoration for his pets is expressed with...eloquence throughout.” (San Francisco Chronicle )“This is Doty at his best....Doty does in fact make the unsayable sayable, bringing the ungraspable within our reach.” (Los Angeles Times )“A tender reflection on love and loss, this is MARLEY & ME for the cerebral.” (People )“Doty pays loving tribute to two retrievers…DOG YEARS is a warm, thought-provoking discourse.
