Wills Red Coat, Tom Ryan
Wills Red Coat, Tom Ryan
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Will's Red Coat
The Story of One Old Dog Who Chose to Live Again

Author: Tom Ryan

Narrator: Tom Ryan

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/25/2017


Synopsis

A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home to live with him and Atticus. The only owners Will ever knew had grown too fragile to take care of themselves, or of him. Ultimately, Will was left at a kill shelter in New Jersey. Tom hoped to give Will a place to die with dignity, amid the rustic beauty of the White Mountains of his New Hampshire home. But when Will bites him numerous times and acts out in violent displays, Tom realizes he is in for a challenge.With endless patience and the kind of continued empathy Tom has nurtured in his relationship with Atticus, Will eventually begins to thrive. Soon, the angry, hurt, depressed, and near-death oldster has transformed into a happy, gamboling companion with a puppy-like zest for discovery. Will perseveres for two and a half years, inspiring hundreds of thousands of Tom and Atticus’s fans with his courage, resilience, and unforgettable heart.A story of a dog and an indelible bond that is beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting, and unforgettable, Will’s Red Coat honors the promise held in every living creature, at any stage of life.

About Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan served as publisher and editor of the Newburyport, Massachusetts, newspaper The Undertoad for more than a decade. In 2007 he sold the newspaper and moved to the White Mountains of New Hampshire with miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch. Over the last five years, Tom and Atticus have climbed more than 450 four-thousand-foot peaks.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PAULA

If you have read Mr. Ryan's Following Atticus you will absolutely love Will's Red Coat. Just don't expect it to be the same. This is more personal. Yes the story is of an old dog that no one wanted. But, it's so much more. It's about changes and how we adapt to them. Tom has such a way with words th......more

Goodreads review by Mark

“Life has a strange way of leading you to where you need to be,” writes Tom Ryan in “Will’s Red Coat.” The aphorism is arguably as applicable to animals as it is to humans, as is clear in this powerful follow-up to Ryan’s 2011 bestseller “Following Atticus.” While that book centered on Ryan’s relati......more