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    You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead: Essays on Life at an Angle
    You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead: Essays on Life at an Angle
    You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead: Essays on Life at an Angle
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    You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead: Essays on Life at an Angle

    By Paul Benedetti

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    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 neighbours — 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateFeb 18, 2017
    ISBN9781459738126
    You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead: Essays on Life at an Angle
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    Paul Benedetti

    Paul Benedetti is an award-winning journalist, author, and writer. His essays have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Canadian Living, Reader’s Digest, and regularly in the Hamilton Spectator, where he has a widely read Saturday column. He has won the Ontario Newspaper Award for Humour Writing and Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Best Short Feature, and he teaches journalism at the University of Western Ontario. Paul lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

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      A collection of the author's columns from the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator: life, love, families, and all their bewildering complications. Some entries are paeans to the emotional moments of family life, others are hilarious vignettes that sometimes had me crying I was laughing so hard. While writing this series of essays, Benedetti (and his wife!) was raising and then learning to let go his 3 children, watching older family members age and pass on, and dealing with the realities of life in a middle-aged body, all with good humor and a loving eye for the foibles of those around him. One or two essays are close variations on earlier stories and should have been edited out (how many essays can you read on the chore of buying new underwear, as funny as it can be?), but all-in-all, a delight to read.

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