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Title: In the Company of Newfies: A Shared Life by Rhoda Lerman ISBN: 0-8050-3746-2 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's coming back
Comment: Rhoda's magical book, In the Company of Newfs is coming back. Complete with stunning photo's and the same enchanting tale (pardon the pun). I loved this book and unfortunately read the last chapter on a flight from Arizona to Colorado - there were tissues everywhere. I loved the fact that someone else shared the same spiritual connection with their Newf! If you want the new book at one twentieth of the price I paid go to katiesbumpers . com and order it now!
Rating: 1
Summary: Utterly Presumptuous
Comment: I have a three-year old Newfoundland, and have had dogs all my life. I had to put my 12-year old Golden Retriever down just a few months ago. I just began to read this book and was upbeat about the prospect of doing so, having read so many flattering reviews. Then, I finished pages one and two, and felt sick. For anyone (much less someone who purports to understand dogs in general and newfies in particular), to claim that ". . .their life's work is not to be dog, but to be human" and that "[t]hey work to be human, to be other than what they are", is so utterly full of ill-founded presumption that I doubt I will ever open the book again.
The most wise words even written about dogs comes from Eugene O'Neill, ironically quoted in Bruce Weber's incredible book on newfies, "Gentle Giants". As Mr. O'Neill so perceptively states:
Dogs are wiser than men.
They do not set great store upon things.
They do not waste their days hoarding property.
They do not ruin their sleep worrying about how
to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the
objects they have not.
There is nothing of value they have to bequeath
except their love and their faith.
Anyone who has shared life with a dog knows this to be true, and could never make humans the idol of dogs. If only humans had the compassion and love of dogs, this world would be a far better place. As Lord Byron put in his poetry on dogs (another newfie lover), it is "vile man" who has ruined the earth, and who ruins his life with worry, materiality, and all the other trappings of post-modernism. Our dogs give us what we can no longer give ourselves, the closest thing to unconditional love. How sad it is for someone to misunderstand the truth, and to state such utter folly as fact. The author has learned little, if anything, from her gentle giants.
Stephen Samuel Sayad
Rating: 5
Summary: It is now available...
Comment: It is THE book to read if you've ever owned a Newfy. The reprint has pictures of the Lerman's Newfies...
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Title: Newfoundlands 2004 Calendar ISBN: 0763163279 Publisher: Browntrout Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: New-found-friends by Rachael Hale ISBN: 0740727184 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Ninety-Nine Newfies by Pat Seawell ISBN: 0759663297 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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