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On Cats

Doris Lessing

2002245 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2002
first published
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  • 2009HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061981951
  • 2012HarperCollins Publishers Limited · ENGISBN 9780007383177
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"On Cats is a celebrated classic, a memoir in which we meet the cats that have slunk and bullied and charmed their way into Doris Lessing's life. She tells their stories-their exploits, rivalries, terrors, affections, ancient gestures, and learned behaviors-with vivid simplicity. And she tells the story of herself in relation to cats: the way animals affect her and she them, and the communication that grows possible between them-a language of gesture and mood and desire as eloquent as the spoken word. No other writer conveys so truthfully the real interdependence of humans and cats or convinces us with such stunning recognition of the reasons why cats really matter" -- inside cover.

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