02094cam a2200385 i 4500 626022390 TxAuBib 20080728120000.0 051116s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005033782 9780151012114 $22.00 0151012113 $22.00 (OCoLC)62326812 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Thomas, Abigail. A three dog life / Abigail Thomas. First edition. Orlando : Harcourt, 2006. 182 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier BookPage, September 00,2006. Booklist, August 00,2006. Kirkus, June 15,2006. Libr Journal, June 01,2006. When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it. Adult. Adult. 20080728. Thomas, Abigail. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Biographies. TXAAL