The Cat Lover and other stories

Fülszöveg

In this volume of stories, Wendy Owen, author of the highly praised There Goes Davey Cohen and Whatever Happened to fíuby?. extends her rangé by further ex-ploring the comic or bizarre elements that lie behind seemingly commonplace events.
Ranging from a genteel village dance dur-ing World War II to the un.usual sexual pastimes of a middle-class housewife, these eleven stories blend realism and fantasy with brilliant originality and a deadly accuracy of touch, Several have as their theme the unusual relationship between cats and their owners.
Press comments on the previous books
There Goes Davey Cohen 'An unusual and even shocking book . . . extremely funny.'—Róbert Pitman in The Sunday Express
'Curiously haunting. Mrs Owen prepares us for a final paragraph that rivals the one in Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple.'—Anthony Burgess in The Listener
Whatever Happened to Ruby? 'Wendy Owen, whose There Goes Davey Cohen showed how brilliantly she could fasten on specialized hell-holes,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In this volume of stories, Wendy Owen, author of the highly praised There Goes Davey Cohen and Whatever Happened to fíuby?. extends her rangé by further ex-ploring the comic or bizarre elements that lie behind seemingly commonplace events.
Ranging from a genteel village dance dur-ing World War II to the un.usual sexual pastimes of a middle-class housewife, these eleven stories blend realism and fantasy with brilliant originality and a deadly accuracy of touch, Several have as their theme the unusual relationship between cats and their owners.
Press comments on the previous books
There Goes Davey Cohen 'An unusual and even shocking book . . . extremely funny.'—Róbert Pitman in The Sunday Express
'Curiously haunting. Mrs Owen prepares us for a final paragraph that rivals the one in Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple.'—Anthony Burgess in The Listener
Whatever Happened to Ruby? 'Wendy Owen, whose There Goes Davey Cohen showed how brilliantly she could fasten on specialized hell-holes, now focuses on a girls' boarding school all loathsomely credible . . . it is as readable as Davey Cohen, which is saying a lot, and an even better növel—subtler, quieter, more economical, more alarming.'—Isabel Quigley in The Financial Times
'Full of humour and genuinely moving . . . she has done a magnificent job with Ruby, and the story holds together extremely well.'—Auberon Waugh Vissza