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A Sheepdog Named Oscar

$20.65

Dara Waldron

1 in stock

SKU: 9781954600294

Grieving his father’s sudden passing,a film scholar and father of two boys finds solace in the picturesque idyll of Ireland’s East Clare regionwhere he discovers and adopts an enigmatic border collie from an abandoned farm. What is the essence of a sheepdog? As much a part of Ireland’s traditional and rural life as the countryside itselfworking animals are known to be incredibly smartloyalwith distinct personalities. Dara Waldron’s memoir about the wandering border collie he adopted the year after his father died is both an animal rescue story and a deep reflection on placewith a happy ending. To make a family pet of OscarWaldron enacts the daily ritual of walking the rugged hills and rivers of Ireland’s woodlands in its intemperate weather–rainsleetand snow. Oscar’s instinctas a sheepdogis to run away and return to his handler. Testing the limits of Waldron’s tolerance and trying his fragile trustdays with Oscar are defined by the author’s attempts to process his grief. Slowly it seeps into his consciousness: Oscar is asking him to understand a creature who lives for anotherwho will always return. In lyrical description of Ireland’s mystical landscapealong with meditations on artphilosophyand animal rightsthis exquisitely wrought memoir about one man and his dog experiencing a symbiotic calling foregrounds the healing terrain of natureand the true purpose and breadth of life. Illustrated throughout with black and white stills in a cinema verit├⌐ style.

A Sheepdog Named Oscar

$20.65

1 in stock

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