Kitty Cornered is raucous and witty and as heartwarming as a basket of kittens. I’m a bone-i-fied dog lover, but this book settles it: I’m getting a cat, or six.” —Dan Dye, author of Amazing Gracie Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, “I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named Frannie—Tarte confesses to allowing these interlopers to shape his and his wife’s life, from their dining habits to their sleeping arrangements to the placement and furriness of their furniture. But more than that, Bob begins seeing Frannie and the other cats as unlikely instructors in the art of achieving contentment, even in the face of illness and injury. Bewitched by the unknowable nature of domesticated cats, he realizes that sometimes wildness and mystery are exactly what he needs. With the winning humor and uncanny ability to capture the soul of the animal world that made Enslaved by Ducks a success, Tarte shows us that life with animals gives us a way out of our narrow human perspective to glimpse something larger, more enduring, and more grounded in the simplicities of love—and catnip.
Kitty Cornered: How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home
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Author: Tarte, Bob
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781565129993
Details:
Author: Tarte, Bob
Brand: Algonquin Books
Edition: 1
Features:
- Algonquin books of chapel hill
- Language: english
- Book - kitty cornered: how frannie and five other incorrigible cats seized control of our house and made it their home
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 10-04-2012
Part Number: Illustrated
Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9781565129993
