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| Author/Contributor(s): | Gethers, Peter |
| Publisher: | Crown |
| Date: | 10/8/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The final, poignant chapter in a trilogy of bestselling true stories about a floppy-earedScottish Fold named Norton
Peter Gethers was a confirmed cat hater until the dayhe received a six-week-old kitten as a gift. Walking the streets of New York withNorton tucked into his pocket, Gethers began forming an intense attachment to hisnew pet. Before long Norton was flying with his owner on the Concorde to Europe,sipping milk in Parisian cafés, and eating custom-made pounce pizzas at Spago. SoonGethers began to detail Norton’s adventures in print, and with The Cat Who Went toParis and A Cat Abroad the duo made history as well as many, many friends aroundthe world.
The Cat Who’ll Live Forever chronicles the latest in Norton’s astonishingadventures, celebrity encounters, and worldwide excursions, culminating in his heartwarming andheartbreaking final cross-country trip. The first half of this book will have yousmiling and laughing as Norton changes the lives of the Italian owners of a thirteenth-centuryabbey in Sicily, attends movie premiers with Sir Anthony Hopkins in the chic Hamptons,and relaxes at the dog run in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park. But asNorton gets older his schedule slows down and he struggles with the aches and painsand physical inconveniences that go along with age, teaching his human the essentialsof loving and caring and coping with illness. Ultimately Norton passes along to hisowner the most valuable lessons of all¯how to deal with death and grief, how to livelife on your own terms, and how to appreciate and savor the joyful times that comealong while we’re here on earth.
The Cat Who’ll Live Forever is, on one level, atouching meditation on love and relationships and dealing with the pain of all, it is a deeply moving and life-affirming tribute to a humble littleanimal who never let stardom go to his head and always understood the meaning oftrue friendship.
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