Happy Dawg Walks the Sad Man: the Remarkably Varied Adventures of a Confirmed Arts Multiple is a thought-provoking, seriocomic romp through Maine author Ross Alan Bachelder's more than fifty years of joyful immersion in the fine and performing arts.

At the heart of Happy Dawg Walks the Sad Man are twenty wide-ranging personal essays--some engagingly thoughtful, some heartrendingly poignant, some quietly hilarious, and some about people of high character and fundamental decency who've made a lasting difference in his life. Altogether, they chronicle a veritable...

Happy Dawg Walks the Sad Man: the Remarkably Varied Adventures of a Confirmed Arts Multiple is a thought-provoking, seriocomic romp through Maine author Ross Alan Bachelder's more than fifty years of joyful immersion in the fine and performing arts.

At the heart of Happy Dawg Walks the Sad Man are twenty wide-ranging personal essays--some engagingly thoughtful, some heartrendingly poignant, some quietly hilarious, and some about people of high character and fundamental decency who've made a lasting difference in his life. Altogether, they chronicle a veritable...