From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin\' , the warm hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.
He lives in Alabama..
He is also a regular contributor to Southern Living and Garden & Gun .
About author(s): RICK Bragg is the author of ten books, including the best-selling Ava\'s Man and All Over but the Shoutin\' .
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.
Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon.
A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy.
Speck arrived in Rick\'s life at a moment of looming uncertainty.
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.
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.
Speck is not a good boy.
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin\' , the warm hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog
