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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