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Article: The need for speed: Bonneville Salt Flats is home to many world speed records
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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JOHN Grogan's dog memoir Marley Me: Life and Love with the
World's Worst Dog, was one of the surprise hits of last year. In the
States, it's never been out of the bestseller lists, totalling more
than three million copies, with the film to come next year.
Even in the UK, it sold an amazing 300,000 in hardback and the
paperback, just out (Hodder, 7.99), promises to do even better.
John Grogan was a young, newly married journalist in Florida when
he and his wife bought a labrador puppy, thinking it might somehow
be good practice for having a child. Marley soon grew into an
hyperactive monster weighing 97lbs and with an outsize character to
match.
As Grogan tells it, Marley's life was a ...