Come Back, Como

Name: Come Back, Como
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Steven Winn
ISBN: 9780061845536

Author: Steven Winn

Narrator: Paul Hernandez

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/29/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Pets

Synopsis

Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Como is Steven Winn’s tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects the pet had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.

About Steven Winn

Steven Winn is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer who spent many years as a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. A Philadelphia native and founding staff member of the Seattle Weekly, he held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, National Lampoon, the New York Times, Parenting, Prairie Schooner, Sports Illustrated, and the Utne Reader. He lives with his family in San Francisco.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debbie on September 17, 2023

Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog by Steven Winn Based on a true story. Steven Winn and his wife, Sally finally give in to their only child Phoebe who pleas for a dog, they adopted a scraggly terrier mutt from a animal shelter The new family pet doesn't like men especially the aut......more

Goodreads review by Kirsti on November 08, 2015

I have been reading animal books for years, and this is definitely one of my favorite of the genre. Instantly, you feel connected to this poor author, who, after having bad experiences with dogs, is reluctant to get one for his insistent daughter. I know exactly what it's like to get your long await......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 18, 2011

I'm a sucker for animal books, but this one just didn't have much to offer. Cute little dog has behavioral problems, and... Snore. Nothing particularly interesting/funny/enlightening happens. The author got on my nerves and was a completely ignorant dog owner. (No wonder Como hated him!) One thing t......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on July 31, 2009

"Anybody could love an easily lovable dog. It was the hard ones, the thorny, bruised and highly amped dogs who put you to the test of how far you are willing to go, how much of yourself you were able to give up, how much it meant to connect to another flawed being". (pg 148) I love dogs in the same d......more