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With endearing humor and unabashed compassion, Willie Morris--a self-declared dog man and author of the classic paean to canine kind, My Dog Skip--reveals the irresistible story of his unlikely friendship with a cat. Forced to confront a lifetime of kitty-phobia when he marries a cat woman, Willie discovers that Spit McGee, a feisty kitten with one blue and one gold eye, is nothing like the foul felines that lurk in his nightmares.
For when Spit is just three weeks old he nearly dies, but is saved by Willie with a little help from Clinic Cat, which provides a blood transfusion. Spit is tied to Willie thereafter, and Willie grows devoted to a companion who won't fetch a stick, but whose wily charm and occasional crankiness conceal a fount of affection, loyalty, and a "rare and incredible intelligence." My Cat Spit McGee is one of the finest books ever written about a cat, and a moving and entertaining tribute to an enduring friendship.
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Laurence Gilbey
reviewed My Cat Spit McGee on March 31, 2011
My Cat Spit McGee
I used to think that a book about a relationship between a cat and a person couldn't get fewer than three stars from me. With three stars meaning "I liked it," how could I -- a long, longtime cat lover -- consider a cat book cat litter? But of course, it's possible. While I simply could not make myself finish DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO. . . crap, crap, crap, I did finish MY CAT SPIT MCGEE. If it had been a long work or if I hadn't seen that Willie Morris CAN write, MY CAT SPIT MCGEE would have a spot next to DEWEY on the never-made-it-to-the-last-page shelf.
Morris thought he knew why he wrote the book, and he tells the reader why. But I'm not sure that he knew -- or that he actually had a compelling reason for writing this book -- or that he had the book he wanted to write in him.
Near the end of the work, Morris admits, "I suppose this has really been a little tale about time in its passing, as all stories must be -- of life moving on" (137). Okay, I can see that. Two pages later, we find "the main character in this book, as I intended all along, of course, is Spit McGee" (139). I think not. Granted, the cat is not ignored, but Willie Morris is the "main character" in this book.
The work is filled with details that made me empathize with men who don't care to hear about what happened unless women can give them an in-a-nutshell version of the events. As I read the book, I kept thinking, "Cut to the chase." Unfortunately, there was no "chase" to "cut to." More importantly, Morris fails to capture the specialness of Spit McGee or to convey the specialness of the author's relationship with him. Fellow pet lovers, THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN -- it's not; HOMER'S ODYSSEY -- it's not. Somewhat interesting --it's not. Think DEWEY.
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