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Zusatztext “Peter Gethers’ trio of books about the globe-trotting Norton are witty and warm. One not only learns of Norton’s sweet personality but also about the author’s not-so-cynical genuine feelings about what really matters when it comes to love and cats.”—Vicki Myron-!author of Dewey: the Small Town Library Cat who Touched the World Informationen zum Autor Peter Gethers Klappentext "Charming, witty, and winning...[A] delightful sequel." SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Norton charmed even the most avowed cat haters in the bestselling THE CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS. Now, in Peter Gethers' and Norton's further adventures, the extraordinary feline with the great Scottish Fold ears, is hightailing it to the south of France--and making pit stops all over the globe (with his favorite human, of course). Along the way, Norton and his human companion face change and learn to understand the problems and the pleasure that come with growing up and growing older together. Like its predecessor, A CAT ABROAD is funny, touching, and wise. AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUBIt’s been said—by Edmund Wilson among other scholars—that the only great subject for American writers is the rise of America in the first half of the twentieth century.   That may be true, though I would argue that there needs to be a slight revision to such a narrow way of thinking. Without going off the deep end, let’s just say: A very good subject for American writers is the rise of the American cat in the second half of the twentieth century. Especially if the cat happens to be a brilliant, handsome, good-hearted Scottish Fold with a round head and flat, folded ears who looks more like an owl than a cat and who has traveled all over the world, having more adventures in his travels than Gulliver.   Of course, I may be a little biased here, especially since this book is a sequel to one called The Cat Who Went to Paris, which was all about the aforementioned cat with folded ears and his owner, who happens to have reasonably straight ears.   The cat who did indeed go to Paris is my very own cat Norton. He’s also been everywhere else in France you can think of, as well as to Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain. He’s been to baseball’s spring training in Florida, to a writers’ conference in San Diego, to meetings at movie studios in L.A., and gone cross-country skiing in Vermont. As I explained in the first book, Norton takes walks with me sans leash and I can leave him outside almost anyplace, in any situation, and he waits patiently in the designated spot until I come to reclaim him. Those designated spots have been everywhere from hotel lobbies to friends’ backyards to airport waiting rooms to the great expanse of Central Park. He has flown on the Concorde. In Europe he goes out to restaurants with me and sits in his own chair, where he behaves like someone who has just graduated from a Swiss finishing school. He is, common to the breed, extraordinarily sweet. He is also, not common to any animal I’ve ever met before, shockingly smart. I really do take him everywhere I go, have ludicrously long conversations with him, and I like him so much I willingly admit it borders on the demented. Very little is done in my life unless Norton approves of the doing.   Since the publication of The Cat Who Went to Paris, I’ve discovered that, as I venture out into the world, I have begun to fade more and more into the background while Norton has slowly poked his way into the limelight. This is fine with me except it means that too often I find myself being compared, one on one, to something—excuse me: someone—I used to foolishly regard as my pet.   Believe me, it is not always a comforting exercise to compare cats to people, particularly if the one doing the comparing happens to be a flawed human rather than a member of the near-flawless feline race. For instance: People lie....

Product details

• Authors: Peter Gethers
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.08.1994
• EAN: 9780449909522
• ISBN: 978-0-449-90952-2
• No. of pages: 243
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Norton the Cat; Norton the Cat
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales