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

Come Back, Como

Winning The Heart Of A Reluctant Dog

By: Steven Winn

Paperback | 2 November 2010

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Steven Winn and his wife, Sally, held out for as long as they could. When the San Francisco couple finally gave in to their only child Phoebe's pleas for a dog, they adopted a scraggly terrier mutt from a local animal shelter. The new family pet, Como, turned out to hate men--especially the author--and proved to be a cunning escape artist. Traumatized, single-minded, and exceptionally clever, Como was bent on breaking Winn's sanity and self-respect, his bank account and his heart.

"Come Back, Como" is the story of one man's hilarious and poignant quest to win the trust of a dog who wanted nothing to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the maddening but ultimately rewarding effects Como had on his family, the misadventures and ordeals and terrifying events he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can make us more human.

Industry Reviews
"A delightful story about the joys and deeper meanings dogs bring into our lives."--Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author "Even people who don't much care for dogs, and I am one, will be moved and entertained by Steven Winn's story of pursuit and rejection and renewed pursuit between man and pooch. Its real subject, transcending species, is the struggle for understanding between minds and hearts."--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon and Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life A delightful story about the joys and deeper meanings dogs bring into our lives. --Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author" Even people who don t much care for dogs, and I am one, will be moved and entertained by Steven Winn s story of pursuit and rejection and renewed pursuit between man and pooch. Its real subject, transcending species, is the struggle for understanding between minds and hearts. --Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon and Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life" As a man owned by a dog, I read this book with delight, merriment, and deep sympathy. And when I reached the most touching parts, there was my dog's head, in my lap -- he knew I had a heart all along.--David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir

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