Cat Stories
, by Tesdell, Diana SeckerNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780307700896 | 0307700895
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/18/2011
Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe-from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser. The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino#x19;s secret city of cats in #x1C;The Garden of Stubborn Cats,#x1D; the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guin#x19;s mind-twisting #x1C;Schr#xF6;dinger#x19;s Cat,#x1D; the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser#x19;s #x1C;Cat #x19;n#x19; Mouse.#x1D; Cats flaunt their superiority in Angela Carter#x19;s bawdy retelling of #x1C;Puss-in-Boots#x1D; and in Stephen Vincent Ben#xE9;t#x19;s #x1C;The King of the Cats,#x1D; in which two impossibly suave foreigners are revealed as even more exotic than they pretend to be. In #x1C;The Islands#x1D; by Alice Adams and #x1C;I See You, Bianca#x1D; by Maeve Brennan we see how much cats can mean to their humans. And the inimitable Saki lets us hear what cats really think of us in #x1C;Tobermory,#x1D; his tale of a tactless talking animal. In these and other stories, this delightful book offers cat lovers a many- faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.