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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
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"Purports to be fiction "based on a true story," but in fact reads exactly like a pet memoir, and is just fantastic and wonderful in that regard, even though I almost didn't make it past my annoyance with the first couple of backstory chapters."
— Stephanie (4 out of 5 stars)
Cormac Listener Reviews
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" A delightful and endearing story. A wonderful and fullfilling relationship between a mand and his dog. Very heartwarming. "
— Kyle, 12/10/2013 -
" Excellent story! I'd like to give Ruth a piece of my mind, though.... "
— Monika, 11/11/2013 -
" cute book! Some people really go out of their way to love a dog! "
— Rosanna, 11/4/2013 -
" This is really bgood. It is good but sad. Ithink if you like dogs this will be a awosome book. "
— Killianwalters, 9/3/2013 -
" Dog lovers book. True story. "
— Pat, 2/14/2013 -
" Great story about the love between a man and his dog. This one has a happy ending. "
— Laura, 10/21/2012 -
" This was a terrific book. Of course I am a lover of dogs. It was hard to put down. "
— Jackie, 10/11/2012 -
" I read this to get ready for the SC book festival. It is a moving, light read for dog people who love other dog people. "
— Lynn, 10/1/2012 -
" snow day today so read this in one afternoon. great book, especially those lovers of animals. "
— Jacqueline115, 7/19/2011 -
" Fast, pleasant, easy read. I liked his style of writing. My favorite parts of this small but true story was when the author (and "owner" of the subject dog, Cormac) would put in words what he guessed Cormac's thoughts were at any given moment. "
— Helen, 2/11/2011 -
" Sonny Brewer's search for his missing golden retriever, Cormac. Fun read if you love dogs. "
— Kitty, 8/10/2010 -
" Would have been better if it was written as non-fiction instead of fiction. "
— Saturday's, 7/1/2010 -
" A delightful and endearing story. A wonderful and fullfilling relationship between a mand and his dog. Very heartwarming. "
— Kyle, 6/4/2010 -
" Great story about the love between a man and his dog. This one has a happy ending. "
— Laura, 7/31/2009 -
" This is really bgood. It is good but sad. Ithink if you like dogs this will be a awosome book. "
— Killianwalters, 5/27/2009 -
" cute book! Some people really go out of their way to love a dog! "
— Rosanna, 4/7/2009 -
" Fast, pleasant, easy read. I liked his style of writing. My favorite parts of this small but true story was when the author (and "owner" of the subject dog, Cormac) would put in words what he guessed Cormac's thoughts were at any given moment. "
— Helen, 2/18/2009 -
" Sonny Brewer's search for his missing golden retriever, Cormac. Fun read if you love dogs. "
— Kitty, 12/30/2008 -
" snow day today so read this in one afternoon. great book, especially those lovers of animals. "
— Jacqueline115, 1/26/2008
About Sonny Brewer
Sonny Brewer is the author of The Poet of Tolstoy Park and A Sound Like Thunder. He started Over the Transom Bookshop in Fairhope, Alabama and is board chairman of the nonprofit Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts. He is the former editor in chief of Mobile Bay Monthly; he also published and edited Eastern Shore Quarterly magazine, edited Red Bluff Review, and was founding associate editor of the weekly West Alabama Gazette.