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Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semiferal creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination with the handsome, domesticated creatures that have shared her flats and her life in London remained undiminished, and grew into real love with the awkwardly lovable El Magnifico, the last cat to share her home.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 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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse. >>Hinreissend beschreibt die Nobelpreistragerin Doris Lessing die Beziehung der verschiedenen Katzen untereinander, ihre Rivalitat, ihre Kampfe, Eifersucht, aber auch ihre tiefen Freundscha en. Sie hat sie beobachtet, beschrieben, belauscht, sie hat sie immer das sein lassen, was sie sind: stolze, schone Tiere, fur deren Zuneigung wir nur dankbar sein konnen.>Isolde Ohlbaum, beruhmt fur ihre Menschenportats, hat lange genug Katzen beobachtet, um den Geschichten ebenburtige Bilder beizugeben - jenseits von Schonsein- und Gefallenwollen.<< Gunther Specovius, NDR. Seller Inventory # 30f2a5b7-ad93-4d80-9cdf-e77d0bdee0da
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