Non-Fiction

A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

Advance Uncorrected Proofs

Release Date: 2009
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
Format: Trade paperback with trade hardcover art
Publisher: Hyperion
Page Count: 271
States: “Advance Uncorrected Proofs” on the cover

Trade Hardcover

Release Date: August 25, 2009
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Hyperion
Page Count: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-40132352-3
Cover Price: $24.99
States: “FIRST EDITION” and “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”

Large Print Hardcover

Release Date: August 25, 2009
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Page Count: 328
ISBN-13: 978-1-41041948-4
Cover Price: $32.95
States: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 12 11 10 09”
Cover image is of ex-library copy resulting in some defects.

First Audio Edition

Release Date: August 25, 2009
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
℗ & © 2009 Hyperon (packaging elements only)
Format: CD
Publisher: Hyperion Audio
Read By: Dean Koontz
Length: 4 HOURS / 4 COMPACT DISCS, Abridged by the Author
ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9308-3
Cover Price: $23.99
Includes an “Enhanced CD: View photos from the author’s collection”

Book Club Edition

Release Date: August 25, 2009
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Hyperion
Page Count: 271
ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-2352-3
Book Club ID: #1278680

Large Print Book Club Edition

Release Date: August 25, 2009
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Doubleday Large Print Home Library
Page Count: 364
ISBN-13: 978-1-61523-407-3
Book Club ID: #1279707

Second Audio Edition

Release Date: July 11, 2011
Copyright: ©2009 by Dean Koontz
℗2008 by Dean Koontz
℗2008 Brilliance Audio
©2008 by Dean Koontz
℗2008 Brilliance Audio
Format: CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Read By: Dean Koontz
Length: 4 Compact discs / 4 hours : 13 minutes + 1 Bonus CD / 1 hour [Abridged]
ISBN-10: 1-4558-4106-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4558-4106-6
Cover Price: $14.99
The bonus CD contains a one-hour abridgement of Bliss to You.

Trade Paperback

Release Date: July 12, 2011
Copyright: Copyright © 2009 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam Books
Page Count: 271
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-53060-8
Cover Price: $15.00
States: “2011 Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition” and “2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1”

Third Audio Edition

Release Date: July 11, 2012
Copyright: ©2009 by Dean Koontz
℗2008 by Dean Koontz
℗2008 Brilliance Audio
©2008 by Dean Koontz
℗2008 Brilliance Audio
Format: CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Read By: Dean Koontz
Length: 4 Compact discs / 4 hours : 13 minutes + 1 Bonus CD / 1 hour [Abridged]
ISBN-13: 978-1-4558-4113-4
Cover Price: $9.99

Notes

The Lost Tomb by Douglas PrestonAn excerpt of this book was included in the August 2009 issue of Reader’s Digest on pages 161-163.

The Lost Tomb and Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing, 2023
On page xviii he quotes from A Big Little Life:
“As Dean Koontz once observed, “We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees, reminding us that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations.”

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Last updated on January 6th, 2019