- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; paperback / softback edition (6 Nov 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099242524
- ISBN-13: 978-0099242529
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 509,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Absolutely magical . . . Always intriguing."
--Richard Adams
Author of Watership Down
"A magical quest fantasy--a Watership Down for cat lovers."
--The Daily Telegraph (London)
"A diverting fantasy tale."
--USA Today
--Richard Adams
Author of Watership Down
"A magical quest fantasy--a Watership Down for cat lovers."
--The Daily Telegraph (London)
"A diverting fantasy tale."
--USA Today
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A novel about Tag, a naive young cat called upon to find the Queen of Cats from the Alchemist: if the Alchemist catches her first, the world will never be safe again. In the course of a great journey across a country and through the whole history of cats, Tag learns what it is to be a cat.
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The one-eyed black cat called Majicou sat between a rusting cage and two sacks of stale grain on a shelf in a shop on Cutting Lane. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Together with its sequel, The Golden Cat, this book makes a strange, shifting tapestry, a fiction that begins as the biography of an ordinary housecat and ends with a kind of sea-change, a cat-millenium in which all the world's ills are healed. We aren't meant to take any of this too seriously, of course--you would have to be rather dull and literalistic to expect that from an author who calls a cat "Ragnar Gustaffson Coeur de Lion". And yet there's a real imaginative edge to the adventures here, especially those of Rags as he searches for his lost queen, or those of the cat known only as "Animal X" as he makes his slow, decent way across a kind of idealised English landscape to the sea, after his release from an experimental farm. There is also an amazing sense of community: Tag the spoiled kitten loses his home, but finds support, love, and a sense of his own worth--a life, in short--among his new friends. Despite (or perhaps because of) a difficult, demanding and exciting existence, the cats in both these books take such good care of one another! We could learn a lot from them. Worth six stars, if I had them to give, despite some wobbly writing in places.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gabriel King's story about a very special cat on a wild adventure is superb. The characters in this tale are not only believable, but they act exactly as real cats do. If you love cats you will love this book, and it will also appeal to everyone else too.
After reading this first book I could not wait to read the next (and the next...)
After reading this first book I could not wait to read the next (and the next...)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read The Wild Road a few years ago and loved it.
Then left it on a train and forgot all about it until my housemate came home last week and said I had to read this book about cats.
It was just as enjoyable the 2nd time and I found it to be beautifully descriptive. (If you are not a fan of long descriptive paragraphs then this book may not be your thing)
The characters are given real life and personality and it is hard not to look at your domestic moggie without wondering do they travel on wild roads too????
It is at times slightly disturbing and raises some very hard issues like animal testing/cruelty and selective breeding but on the whole it is a very hard to put down adventure story.
I highly recommend it and if you have cats you will never see them in the same light again....
Then left it on a train and forgot all about it until my housemate came home last week and said I had to read this book about cats.
It was just as enjoyable the 2nd time and I found it to be beautifully descriptive. (If you are not a fan of long descriptive paragraphs then this book may not be your thing)
The characters are given real life and personality and it is hard not to look at your domestic moggie without wondering do they travel on wild roads too????
It is at times slightly disturbing and raises some very hard issues like animal testing/cruelty and selective breeding but on the whole it is a very hard to put down adventure story.
I highly recommend it and if you have cats you will never see them in the same light again....
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Very much like a cat, in good and bad ways
I stumbled upon this book by sheer accident, and seeing as how I was very much into the subject of cats (especially in fiction) at the time, I snapped it up. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2009 by Paul Everdark
draws you in and wont let you go!
this a great book, it draws you in from the start, gabriel king is brilliant at keeping you reading! Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2007 by Mrs. Z. Tarnet
one for cat lovers everywhere!
My wife bought The Wild Road on a recent holiday, as the white cat on the cover reminded her of one of her own! Read more
Published on 14 April 2002 by derek@discworld.freeserve.co.uk
Fascinating journey with some wonderful characters
I was asked to read both The Wild Road and The Golden Cat by my mother. We are both great cat fans and enjoy nothing more than a well written book. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2000
The intelligent species
This book made me think so very hard about what we as humans are really like. I could not read the wild road quickly, I had to stop, think and digest what I had read. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 1999
Contrived, boring, silly.
I've always loved cats - we have three - and I still found this book contrived, boring and silly. After trudging through the first third, I realized life was too short to waste... Read more
Published on 13 May 1999
CATS DON'T JUST SIT BY THE FIRE ALL DAY........
A YOUNG BURMILLA CALLED TAG GETS LOST WHEN OUT FOR A WALK. HE FALLS IN WITH TWO SHOWCATS CALLED RAGNAR AND PERELOT. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 1998
Legendary, but with some flaws
A fascinating book which takes the reader on a quest across time and space along the Wild Roads. King has written one of the more plausible "through the eyes of animals"... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 1998
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