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Title: Nop's Hope by Donald McCaig ISBN: 1-55821-574-3 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More trials, more hope for Penny
Comment: I found this book very touching. I felt an enormous sense of compassion for Penny and understood her frantic efforts to escape from her overwhelming grief. Although her choices seemed very foreign to me, I felt that I could empathize with her. She often seemed blind to others and their needs, and their efforts to help her, because her own hurts were so enormous. But, her wonderful dog, Hope, was marvelous and, like dogs tend to be, nonjudgemental. Penny's mistakes were realistic, and I think she finally learned from them. The dawning of her ability to move on and begin a new life at the end of the book was sensitively done in the author's easy-reading and unpretentious style. I found this a book for reading over and over again. It did not leave me with the disturbing images that Nop's Trials did.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hope For Another Nop Sequel
Comment: McCaig's writing style has matured since penning Nop's Trials. If you've read the first book, you'll understand how it almost feels like somebody else wrote Hope, yet it still carries McCaig's overall simplistic and straightforward flavor. Hope is more about Hope's handler, Penny Burkeholder, and how she tries to cope with life after her family is cruelly and suddenly torn asunder. Nop's offspring, Hope, is integral to the storyline, though not so much as his sire was in Nop's Trials. There's something bleak and distant about this book that makes it feel lonely...though it is appropriate for the story, it lacks a little of the magic and sparkle of Nop's Trials. There's less humor here, less warmth, and I'm uncertain if McCaig intended it to be interpreted this way to help the reader feel what Penny and her family endure during the telling of this tale. It's a great book, but a sad one overall. Fortunately, enough strings remain untied at the end to give hope for at least one more wonderful Burkeholder story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Loved Hope, disappointed in Penny
Comment: This author is obviously one of the good dog people who listen to their dogs. This is the sequel to Nop's Trials. Hope is Nop's son. Lewis gave the dog to his daughter Penny to help her to recover from the death of her husband and daughter in a car accident. Penny becomes obsessed with the dog and sheepdog trials and becomes fairly successful. Wanting to be close to her, Lewis and Nop rejoin the sheepdog circuit with great success in the ring, and somewhat less with his daughter. Hope, Nop, and Lewis and his wife do well in the end, but I am disappointed in his daughter and hope that her situation will resolve itself in time.
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Title: Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig ISBN: 1558211853 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men by Donald McCaig ISBN: 1558216707 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Dog Year : Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me by Jon Katz ISBN: 0812966902 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Floss by Kim Lewis ISBN: 1564022714 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Just Like Floss by Kim Lewis ISBN: 0763610798 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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