![]() She watches them as mothers: grey cat must be forced to lie with her kittens, would much rather desert them to flirt with guests black cat is proudest when surrounded by a litter, most entertaining when initiating them into the use of the cat box. With an infallibly precise eye and a direct honesty that keeps her from sentimentalizing, she finds the key to their contrasting characters in the contrasting way they live their lives. ![]() Particularly, she explores the relationship between the two cats who live with her - a spoiled, exquisite, domineering grey, and a sturdy, modest, uncomplaining black. This writer, famous for her incomparably perceptive analysis of herself, of society of people, now looks at cats: the cats she knew in childhood - sunning themselves in the hot African sun, running wild in answer to mating calls from the bush - and later, cats on English rooftops, cats on cold London pavements, cats on doorsteps looking for a house to settle in. ![]() Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing D o r i s L e s s i n gįrom the book jacket: An extraordinary book from Doris Lessing. ![]()
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