The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0525658815 ISBN13: 9780525658818 Release Date: September 2021 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Length: 256 Pages Weight: 0.80 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0" INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck 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, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of