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On Cats Doris Lessing
HarperCollins 2008 0061672246 / 9780061672248 New Hardcover
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 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.
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8.50 USD
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The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog Doris Lessing
Harper Collins 006053012X / 9780060530129 Hardcover, DJ New copy
In her visionary novel Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing introduces us to a brother and sister battling through a future landscape where the climate is much changed - colder than ever before in the north and unbearably dry and hot in the south. In this new novel the odyssey continues. Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization, traveling with his friend, a snow dog who brings him back from the depths of despair. And we meet Mara's daughter and Griot with the green eyes, an abandoned child-soldier who, in this strange and captivating adventure, discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories. This brilliant novel explains as much about the world we now live in as it does about the future we may be heading toward.
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7.15 USD
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