The Speckled Beauty - Rick Bragg

The Speckled Beauty

By Rick Bragg

  • Release Date: 2021-09-21
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 111 Ratings

Description

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 looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.

Reviews

  • Mischievous One

    5
    By SusanB71
    This book was like no other I have read! The antics that he found himself in was quite hilarious at times! I did enjoy and I highly recommend this book!
  • Loved it !

    5
    By ss4mat
    Great way of sayin things.
  • What Fun!

    5
    By GLC2551
    And much is learned as well. Clever storytelling makes this book a hit. Adventures with a dog are rarely boring, and with Specks they are a delight. Hardship, illness, and trials are met with rounds of tales to entice the reader to read on and to grab another book by Bragg.

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