内容简介
AcollectionofDorisLessing’scharmingandcelebratedwritingsaboutcats.DorisLessing’sloveaffairwithcatsbeganatayoungage,whenshebecameintriguedwiththesemi-feralcreaturesontheAfricanfarmwhereshegrewup.HerfascinationremainedundiminishedbythehandsomedomesticatedcreatureswhosharedherflatsandherlifeinLondonandgrewintoreallovewithElMagnifico,theawkwardlylovablecatwhoinhislateryearssufferedthegreatindignityofbecomingathree-leggedbeast.ConsistingofDorisLessing’scelebratedcollectionofstories,‘ParticularlyCatsandRufus’,andthepoignantthoughunsentimentalmemoir,‘TheOldAgeofElMagnifico’,thisbookisabrilliantevocationoffelineexistence.
作者简介
DorisLessingisoneofthemostimportantwritersofthesecondhalfofthetwentiethcentury.Herfirstnovel,‘TheGrassisSinging’waspublishedin1950,andsincethenherinternationalreputationhasflourished.Amongherothercelebratednovelsare‘TheGoldenNotebook’,‘TheSummerBeforetheDark’,and‘MemoirsofaSurvivor’.Hermostrecentworksinclude‘Love,Again’andtwovolumesofherautobiography,‘UndermySkin’,and‘WalkingintheShade’.