Stray
A. N. Wilson
Subjects
- Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
- Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
Average rating
Clever, moving, imaginative and funny, this is both a wonderful adventure story, and a sly look at humans through the eyes of a cat.
A cat of literary distinction – Naomi Lewis, Observer
A.N. Wilson has written a classic… His episodic, quasi-picaresque story is deeply read-on, funny, moving and exciting (Literary Review). Pufftail the tabby cat was a prince among strays. He was charming, adventurous, a gentleman of the road – not for him a life purring around the shins of a Two Footer. Now that he’s old and grey-whiskered, he can laze in the sun, telling the story of his life to his admiring young grandkitten.
Not all his memories are happy though. He’s been thrown out of a moving car, been experimented on in a science lab and joined the violent Cat Brotherhood. Some Two Footers have been kind to him, but he’d rather be free. And he can’t understand humans at all. Why do they live in giant cages? Why do they put smoking chimneys in their mouths? And why do they want their own animals?
Reviews
This heart-breaking book is a moving story of Pufftail the cat who tells his grandson of all the tragic adventures he had as a young cat. This book is well written and might appeal to some readers, but I would hesitate to recommend it to non-adults because it contains some troubling subject matter. Sensitive readers would not enjoy this book. In my considered opinion this book is unnecessarily dark.
Anonymous 03.08.2019
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