Mad DashMad Dash
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Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, 1st ed, No Longer Available.Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThe poor thing was cold and trembling, abandoned on their front doorstep. Dash, impulsive as always, decides on the spot that they should keep it. But her husband, Andrew, thinks it’s the craziest thing he’s ever heard. A fight over a scruffy little dog doesn’t seem like much of a reason to walk out on your husband of twenty years—but the spat over the puppy is just the last of many straws.
Dash is so tired of the faculty parties at Mason-Dixon College that Andrew insists they attend even though he won’t mingle with his colleagues, tired of his constant fretting over illnesses he doesn’t have, tired of the glass of warm milk he must have every night before bed. Why can’t he see that with her mother gone and their daughter off at college, Dash needs something more?
Now, living on her own for the first time in years, Dash can do whatever she wants . . . if only she could figure out what that is. But every time she starts making plans for the future, she finds herself thinking about the past—remembering the mother she’s lost, her daughter’s childhood, and the husband she isn’t entirely sure she wants to leave behind. . . .
By turns poignant and hilarious—often on the same page—Mad Dash is a novel about the funny ways love has of catching up to us despite our most irrational efforts to leave it behind.
An argument over the abandoned puppy they find on their front doorstep and her yearning to keep the dog are the final straws in Dash's decision to leave her twenty-year marriage to Andrew, who does not seem to realize that, with her mother gone and their daughter at college, Dash needs more than his hypochondria and an endless round of faculty parties. 100,000 first printing.
An argument over the abandoned puppy they find on their front doorstep is the final straw in Dash's decision to leave her twenty-year marriage to Andrew, who does not seem to realize that Dash needs more than his hypochondria and an endless round of faculty parties.
Dash is so tired of the faculty parties at Mason-Dixon College that Andrew insists they attend even though he won’t mingle with his colleagues, tired of his constant fretting over illnesses he doesn’t have, tired of the glass of warm milk he must have every night before bed. Why can’t he see that with her mother gone and their daughter off at college, Dash needs something more?
Now, living on her own for the first time in years, Dash can do whatever she wants . . . if only she could figure out what that is. But every time she starts making plans for the future, she finds herself thinking about the past—remembering the mother she’s lost, her daughter’s childhood, and the husband she isn’t entirely sure she wants to leave behind. . . .
By turns poignant and hilarious—often on the same page—Mad Dash is a novel about the funny ways love has of catching up to us despite our most irrational efforts to leave it behind.
An argument over the abandoned puppy they find on their front doorstep and her yearning to keep the dog are the final straws in Dash's decision to leave her twenty-year marriage to Andrew, who does not seem to realize that, with her mother gone and their daughter at college, Dash needs more than his hypochondria and an endless round of faculty parties. 100,000 first printing.
An argument over the abandoned puppy they find on their front doorstep is the final straw in Dash's decision to leave her twenty-year marriage to Andrew, who does not seem to realize that Dash needs more than his hypochondria and an endless round of faculty parties.
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- New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2007.
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