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On Cats (Paperback)

by Doris May Lessing (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; New edition edition (20 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007285515
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007285518
  • Product Dimensions: 15 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 127,838 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #18 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > L > Lessing, Doris
    #77 in  Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Animal Sciences > Mammals > Cats & Big Cats

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'A distillation of everything that makes her work such a joy to read!Lessing's intensely visual imagination and coolly precise style fleshes out this feline life. A work of exquisite tenderness and poignancy, thoroughly devoid of artifice, over-elaboration or mawkish sentimentality!Wonderful.' Scotsman '"Particularly Cats" is not really about cats at all, it's about real characters.' Daily Mail 'An unsentimental and unwhimsical, but not unpartisan, study of cat-and-human relationships. An entertaining read for both cat and Lessing connoisseurs.' Observer


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A collection of Doris Lessing's charming and celebrated writings about cats. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination remained undiminished by the handsome domesticated creatures who shared her flats and her life in London and grew into real love with El Magnifico, the awkwardly lovable cat who in his later years suffered the great indignity of becoming a three-legged beast. Consisting of Doris Lessing's celebrated collection of stories, 'Particularly Cats and Rufus', and the poignant though unsentimental memoir, 'The Old Age of El Magnifico', this book is a brilliant evocation of feline existence.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unsentimental and tender, 2 Sep 2009
By A. Feruglio Dal Dan "afdd" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I just re-read this book, that I remember having loved so much, and my appreciation for it has, if anything, grown. It's easy to be soppy when talking about animals you love, but Lessing manages to be thoroughly unsentimental, even ruthless (the book opens with a great slaughter of cats), and yet show such deep empathy and compassion for these specks of life sharing her life that I always have to blink back tears when I finish it. She has no time for mysticism and intimations that cat are supernatural, mysterious creatures: to her, they are vulnerable little animals, whom we love and betray, driven by their instincts and needs, just as we are, and the bond between us is frail, tender and painful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars doris lessing on cats, 6 Feb 2009
Order arrived within a few days of ordering which was impressive. I bought it for a friend as a christmas gift as she is a cat lover so I knew it was a suitable gift, but it appeared to be in excellent condition.
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