All My Cats
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 t…
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Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Paul (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2895-4
- EAN: 9780811228954
- Produktnummer: 30005651
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.4 cm x D1.5 cm 250 g
- Gewicht: 250
Über den Autor
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.
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