Ergebnis für "Cat" in Zeitgenössische Literatur

Cat and his friends are back! The rich, cantankerous, narcissistic, but generous, septuagenarian Cajun, Clarence "Cat" Touchette, helps when his friend, Crosby "Souris" Babineaux finds his son in a coma at the family's marine transportation company. Cat begins probing, discovers unusual business practices by Souris' son, and scrutinizes a sleazy crew aboard a vessel chartered by a mysterious company.

This is a riveting novel of the life of the American cat. An American feline, Puska, lived with the same man for 18 years - all her life. Before she dies, Puska leaves "memoirs" recalling her life and views on many issues. These memoirs take us to numerous places in the US and around the world. The listener will visit California, Texas, New Jersey, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Russia, and meet many wonderful animals living there. Puska befriends all of them having her take on these places through their and her own perspective.

Going Home with a Cat and a Ghost is a fictional novel about life's complexities for Judy Howard: liberated enough to drive forward in her RV, yet still imprisoned by her 40-year old-past when she was drugged, raped, and had an illegal abortion. Judy Howard, a typical sixteen-year-old growing up in the Midwest in 1965, is naive and shy, with a crush on the high school's "James Dean, Bad Boy" named Brad. As Judy and Brad flirt with their desires for one another, life is easy, until Judy is drugged and date raped on a Saturday night in the roller rink parking lot.

What happens when nothing happens? Maryanne wonders in A Year of Cats and Dogs, a darkly funny yet hopeful novel about a woman in mid-life who feels surrounded by death. She answers her own question by deciding to find out.

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