Helpful Score: 4
I absolutely loved this book! Take good care of it because I'm sure to request it back someday to read again!
Donna V.
Donna V.
Helpful Score: 4
This is a great read if you know of someone close to death or has just passed. This book is so enlightening that I really hesitated to post it!
Helpful Score: 2
This book moves like poetry ...to dance with the white dog is a loving eulogy to old age itself...a tender celebration of life, made poignant by death being so close at hand. Los Angeles Times
I really hate to part with this one. It's been sitting on my shelf for a while and I don't think I'm going to reread it again. Someone else deserves to enjoy it!
Helpful Score: 2
A georgia author. great book even through not great rating. An old man struggling with life after wife dies. But has a great reltionship with a dog to help him with his new life.
Helpful Score: 2
I loved this book so much that I hunted until I found the movie and bought it. This is a wonderful story about a man and wife who were married for many years, she passes away and the husband is left to the over protecting care of his married children. He sees a white dog--they don't. If I tell you any more I will give the story away and this is such a beautiful story, with every page I was wanting for more and I loved this oler man and his family and yes his "white dog".
Helpful Score: 2
A hallmark movie was made from this book. Sam, an elderly man, is living alone on his farm after his wife dies. He begins telling his children about seeing a white dog - that nobody else can see! A touching read!
Helpful Score: 1
Very sweet read by a local Georgian author.
Helpful Score: 1
a thought provoking story for those of us with aging parents.
Helpful Score: 1
Very touching story. I cried and laughed.
Helpful Score: 1
I recommend this book highly! It had such a sweet story about an older gent who losses his wife, and the wonders of love and life and an angel dog!! I must read more of this author's novels :-)
Helpful Score: 1
Very tender descriptions of a household in change. Mom, dad, kids, dog. What more like little house in the 1940's can you get. Very nice.
Helpful Score: 1
Sam Peek's children are worried. Since that "saddest day" - the day his beloved wife of fifty-seven good years, Cora, died - no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep on driving his dilapidated truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a white dog, as white as the pure driven snow, that seems invisible to everyone but him, his children think that grief and old age have racked their father's brain.
But whether it's a real canine or phantom, Sam Peek - "one of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" - outsmarts them all. Sam and White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage.
But whether it's a real canine or phantom, Sam Peek - "one of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" - outsmarts them all. Sam and White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage.
Beautiful, musical prose, and heart warming story about love, family and relationships.
This was so good it was like being blessed to read it!
I really enjoyed this book. It was a great story.
Such a sweet tender story. I was thinking, along with his kids,that perhaps his mind was slipping in seeing the white dog.
This story is lovely in talking about how deeply we miss our mate when they are gone. It was funny with his daughters fussing over him and him "tricking" them.
the ending was a real surprise to me. I read this in 2 hours and cried most of the way through.
This story is lovely in talking about how deeply we miss our mate when they are gone. It was funny with his daughters fussing over him and him "tricking" them.
the ending was a real surprise to me. I read this in 2 hours and cried most of the way through.
I read this book years ago and the story still haunts me.
If you have an elderly person in your family that you love and care about then you must read this book!
This book was our book clubs choice for February. We so enjoyed the story and were drawn to it because we are all of the age of the same age as Cora and Sam. What a wonderful and caring family and friends and neighbors. Sam's desire for independence and respect hit close to home. The book is well-written with touches of humor. I highly recommend this story.
This was the first time I had read anything by Terry Kay, and when I finished this one I immediately started looking for other books by him. How did I miss knowing about him? Now I wonder if he can write fast enough to satisfy my craving!
Everyone should read this book.
Sam Peek's children are worried - since the day his wife of 57 years died - no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep on driving his old truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a white dog, as white as snow, that seems invisible to everyone else, his children think that grief and old age have racked their father's mind.
But whether it is a real canine or a phantom, Sam Peek - "One of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" - outsmarts them all. Sam and White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage.
But whether it is a real canine or a phantom, Sam Peek - "One of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" - outsmarts them all. Sam and White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage.
