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You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead

Essays on Life at an Angle

Paul Benedetti
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Pages
256
Year
2017
Language
English
Publisher
Dundurn Press

About

Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti's essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today. Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbors - but that doesn't stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can't quite navigate. Benedetti misses his son, who is travelling in Europe, misplaces his groceries, and forgets to pick up his daughter at school. He endures a colonoscopy and vainly attempts to lower his Body Mass Index - all with mixed results. He loves his long-suffering wife, worries about his aging parents and his three children, who seem to spend a lot of time battling online trolls, having crushes on vampires, and littering their rooms with enough junk to start a landfill.

Related Subjects

  • Essays
  • Form
  • Humor
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Marriage & Family
  • Topic
  • Anecdotes, Epigrams & Quotations

Reviews

"Paul Benedetti has an uncanny ability to look at the small things and see the big picture - or the big things and find the small truth. In the spirit of the great Gary Lautens, he introduces you to family, neighbourhood and real life. You will laugh out loud and you will quietly weep. And you will enjoy every word."
Author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey
"Many of the 90 mini-essays in Paul Benedetti's You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead are very funny. Others are compassionate, clever, rueful, or tender. Sometimes there's even an outbreak of wisdom - all of which means that in its swift snapshots, the collection contains plenty of the sweetnesses, sorrows and, not least, the jollities of actual life."
Author of Luck, Critical Injuries, and 9 other novels

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