| All My Cats Contributor(s): Hrabal, Bohumil (Author), Wilson, Paul (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811228959 ISBN-13: 9780811228954 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Animals - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: 891.863 |
| LCCN: 2019020102 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" (0.53 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and his country retreat, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed. As he is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas created by his indulgent love for the animals, there are episodes of intense brutality as he controls the feline population. Yet in the end, All My Cats is a book about Hrabal's relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos--and about love. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hrabal, Bohumil: - Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Moravia. He is the author of such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy-Award winning film by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.Wilson, Paul: - Paul Wilson lives in Canada and has translated works by Vaclav Haval, Bohumil Hrabal, Ivan Kilma, and Josef Skvorecky. |