OverviewOve view What the Critics are Saying... Table of Contents Chapter Four: "Roughhousing" Back to vanderbiltbooks.com home page Bookstore    "Anyone who likes dogs will feel that they have a new dog in their house when they read this book. Amy is so alive that she does not just stay on the printed page, but jumps right off the page and into your heart." --Brooke Astor   "An appealing book...charming!" --Publishers Weekly "Golden Days is yet one more offering of this skilled and caring man. I predict great things from this book and for this author." --Roger A. Caras, award-winning author; President, ASPCA     "This book is a prose love song for an old golden retriever, sung to the rustic and nautical rhythms of the northeast coast. Like most good love songs, certain refrains keep running through your mind long after the singing has stopped." --Stanley Coren, bestselling author of The Intelligence of Dogs   E-mail to: ATVAuthor@aol.com

GOLDEN DAYS MEMORIES OF A GOLDEN RETRIEVER by Arthur Vanderbilt A GOLDEN RETRIEVER....THE SUMMER....CAPE COD... Who Could Ask for Anything More? "Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a golden retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same again. A warm afterglow remains that lasts a lifetime. This author is fluent in that language. --Betty White "Fun to read, full of light and friendship." --Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs Click here More Reviews   She was a doting golden retriever named Amy.   She had golden eyelashes. And a fondness for cheese. And a worn-out slipper she'd bring to those she felt sure needed it.   She never undertook an incredible journey, or a dramatic rescue worthy of a Lassie or a Rin-Tin-Tin, and never learned a repertoire of clever tricks.   Yet she did more. She took her family places they never would have gone and showed them things they never would have seen without her. She opened their eyes and hearts to the wonder of the moment, to the magic of now. And in the process, she taught them everything golden retrievers know about fairness and faithfulness, about unconditional friendship and loyalty and love.   Set on the outer shores of Cape Cod, you'll feel through the mists and fogs the presence of those who walked these same beaches before them--prehistoric man, early explorers, pirates, whalers, fishermen, naval airmen, naturalists. And through a prose sytle that is luminous and uplifting, humorous and touching, you'll sense the inevitability of the passage of time and a mystical reverence of the wonder of life.   This tenderly told love story is a memoir of what a dog can teach us about ourselves and the world we share. Golden Days is a book that will be cherished not only by dog lovers, but by readers everywhere. A classic.   Golden Days is also being published in China, Germany and Japan. "A buoyant recollection of ten wonderful years on Cape Cod." --The Cape Codder "A slim book that speaks volumes about the rippling effect a single dog can have on a group of humans." --The Cape Cod Chronicle "A touching book about a wonderful dog." --Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, bestselling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep "This book captures everything good about life near the shore. This volume is, at its core, about living. --Best Read Guide "Must summer reading. And its worth its weight in gold! --Worrall Newspapers "Good dog, lovely book." --Kirkus Reviews     "The beauty of this small but mighty book is Vanderbilt's ability to find the right words to describe the incredible charisma and boundless joy of his golden retriever and the love they share." --The Sunday Star Ledger "A perfect take-along to beach or country house is Arthur Vanderbilt's Golden Days: Memories of a Golden Retriever. With a tenderness and humor that practically waft off the page, Vanderbilt chronicles the sun-drenched pleasures of his family's annual summer sojourns on Cape Cod--and lovingly captures Amy, the canine in question, whose ways and wiles did much to lend those days their glow." --Town & Country Back to top