Category: Non-Fiction. This Edition: British first edition. From the book jacket: This little book is about the cats Doris Lessing has known or lived with, two in particular, Grey Cat and Black Cat, who are as different in character, temperament and tastes as two people, and who now share her life, mostly in London, sometimes in a Devon cottage. They are both half Siamese, and have Siamese traits: they Category: Non-Fiction. In a series of captivating, interconnected vignettes, Lessing writes about the cats that have slinked, bullied, and charmed their way into her life, including El Magnifico, whose story unfolds in a new essay appearing here for the first time. Edition Details. Format: 5/5(5). First Published by: Simon and Schuster. Category: Non-Fiction. This Edition: American first edition. From the book jacket: An extraordinary book from Doris Lessing. This writer, famous for her incomparably perceptive analysis of herself, of society of people, now looks at cats: the cats she knew in childhood - sunning themselves in the hot African sun, running wild in answer to mating calls from the bush - and Category: Non-Fiction.
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Particularly Cats and Rufus by Doris Lessing (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Consisting of the celebrated story collections "Particularly Cats" and "Rufus the Survivor," and the memoir "The Old Age of El Magnifico," this book brilliantly evokes the subtleties of feline existence. An entertaining read for both cat and Lessing connoisseurs"The Observer." Book Synopsis. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a. Editions for Particularly Cats: (Paperback published in ), X (Paperback published in ), (ebook published in ),
Particularly Cats by Lessing, Doris. Used; good; hardcover; Condition Good Seller. Klondyke. Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio. Particularly cat lovers. Novelist Doris Lessing can recall a hundred incidents involving cats, years and years of cats—and does so in a memoir that reaches across continents and the years, and extreme feline states. Convinced while still young of the brutishness of existence, Lessing maintained a rapt yet oddly detached interest in cats as fellow sufferers and would-be survivors. Here she recalls the lives (and woes) of sundry cats and sidelong humans with a compelling, almost metaphysical, darkness.
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