Cormac, Sonny Brewer
Cormac, Sonny Brewer
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Cormac
The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing

Author: Sonny Brewer

Narrator: Sonny Brewer

Unabridged: 4 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2007


Synopsis

Cormac is a novel based on real events, and tells the tale of a Golden Retriever, who ran away from his Alabama home while the owner was on a book tour in San Francisco. Cormac had always been afraid of storms, they made him cower and tremble. Or, in this case, run, run like the shrieking wind that blew the rain across the land. Maybe if Cormac s master had not been away from home, and his food and water poured for him by a stranger s hand, things would have been different. But on that day the young male dog took off into an adventure that would land him in the bed of a red pickup truck, driven by a mysterious woman who would hand him over to the dog pound, and the dog pound would hand him over to a rescue group who would take him to a clinic to be fixed by a routine scalpel and end his royal lineage. Cormac would be hauled to Connecticut in the back of a van, and turned over to another rescue group that would offer him for adoption on the internet. These things are known because Cormac s owner, Sonny Brewer, the author of this book, went door to door in his neighborhood gathering one clue and then another, one bit of information and then another. When the trail led him to the dog pound and the director there refused to disclose information to Sonny, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist friend promised the story would make national news in 48 hours unless Sonny was told everything he wanted to know. Doors and phone lines then opened and Sonny attempted to determine if the Golden Retriever the foster family called Cognac was in fact Cormac. Sonny felt 90 percent certain it was his dog and agreed to take him, paying a pet transport driver $300 to bring the Golden south to Alabama

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on April 29, 2019

When I say Fairhope is a small town in Alabama, think of art galleries and coffee shops and cafés and sailboats bobbing at anchor on Mobile Bay, beneath the high bluff upon which the town is perched. Think of flowers on the corners of brick-paved sidewalks, gnarly live oaks draped with Spanish mo......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 03, 2021

I read the Audible version of Cormac. This is the wonderful telling of a dog lover and his dogs. Sonny Brewer's Alabama drawl made the listening even better. I was shocked at the story of how he "lost" and found his dog. For all it's humor and humanity this is serious subject. I'm glad that Mr. Brewe......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on October 17, 2021

I stumbled upon this audiobook at the library and gave it a listen. It's narrated by the author (which I enjoy) and was a fascinating story. I particularly love when a biographical story is narrated by the author because you can hear true emotion. Listening to his voice crack as he talks about his d......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on March 06, 2024

As a dog lover, this book had me from the first paragraph. I don’t know which parts of the story were embellished, but I know the eyes of love in a good dog… that part was true.😊 I loved this story and will follow this author.......more

Goodreads review by April on June 21, 2019

I liked his easy going manner and down to earth style. I had a hard time feeling too sorry for a man who has an adult dog unneutered! This is the 21st Century! A lot of hardship for the family and the dog would have been spared had Sonny just been a man and got his dog's balls clipped!......more