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Willie Morris never liked cats—indeed, he had a loathing of cats going back to his childhood.
Willie was always a dog man, as were almost all of the people he knew. My Dog Skip, his moving tribute to the dog he loved in boyhood, became an instant classic and then a captivating film.
And when his beloved black Lab, Pete, died, and his friends asked, "Will you get another dog?" Willie replied, "No, I'll get another wife first."
And that is precisely what happened—the wife part, anyway. But the woman Willie married turned out to be a cat woman, and on their first Christmas together, a little white waif found starving in a ditch off old Highway 51 outside Jackson, Mississippi, crept out from behind their Christmas tree with a red Yuletide ribbon around her neck. Willie was horrified, but that kitten eventually became the mother of Spit McGee, who is the subject of this surprising, beguiling, and altogether winning book.
When Spit McGee was three weeks old, he almost died, but he was saved by Willie with a little help from Clinic Cat, who gave him a blood transfusion. Spit McGee was tied to Willie thereafter, a fount of affection, loyalty, crankiness, and enigma—not to mention high and resilient intelligence. Spit has one blue eye and one golden eye. Although folk wisdom has it that a cat with different colored eyes is deaf, Spit McGee, according to Willie, could pick up a dinner conversation in Memphis, two hundred miles away.
My Cat Spit McGee vividly describes what Willie learned about cats over the years—their habits, eccentricities, and resourcefulness, the ways in which they have been irrevocably shaped by their long-ago jungle origin, and how they differ from dogs.
The result is an endearing, story-filled celebration of the love that millions of others have for their cats. It honors, too, an abiding comradeship, and Willie's and Spit's daily adventures as they tried to fathom each other.
My Cat Spit McGee is the memorable sequel to My Dog Skip and one of the finest books ever written about a cat.
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
少年時代の犬との交流を綴った世界的ベストセラー『マイ・ドッグ・スキップ』の著者による「猫なんて!」の人生から「猫のいない生活なんて!」の“転向”エッセイ。
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~もともと犬派だった著者が猫派に変身していく様子を描いた作品。
人生順風満帆、あるいは、希望に満ち満ちて、明日が来るのが
楽しみでしょうがないという人は、感情移入しにくい本かもしれません。
人生の折り返し地点を過ぎ、「今までのオレの人生はなんだったんだ」と
考えたりするようになった人には、うなずけるところが多いと思います。
ちょっ~~とセンチメンタルすぎるかなと思いますが、ジーンとくる本です。~
人生順風満帆、あるいは、希望に満ち満ちて、明日が来るのが
楽しみでしょうがないという人は、感情移入しにくい本かもしれません。
人生の折り返し地点を過ぎ、「今までのオレの人生はなんだったんだ」と
考えたりするようになった人には、うなずけるところが多いと思います。
ちょっ~~とセンチメンタルすぎるかなと思いますが、ジーンとくる本です。~
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形式:単行本
「猫」本て、おんなが書いたものとおとこが書いたものでは、ぜんぜん雰囲気がちがう。「犬」はどっちが書いても、たいていおんなじ雰囲気なのに。そして、これは「おとこ」の猫本。おしなべて、世界の名だたる作家が「猫キチ」であることに、つねづね疑問をもっていた著者が、はからずも自分がその一員になっていく過程が、最高におかしい！ 犬のほうがかわいい、猫のほうがかわいい、この比較は常々くだらないと思ってた。かわいさの質が違うんだから。著者はそこんところをちゃ〜んとわかっている。
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Amazon.com:
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My Friend Willie....
2000/2/1
形式:ハードカバー
I say that because after reading this book I feel like I've come to know both Willie and Spit, as well as a few of his other great characters. As the author said, his loving, personal sketch of Spit is really much more, a drawing together of so many meaningful threads in his own eventful life. His travels with the large white cat are his way of sharing his family and social history with his best friend, and its a time for remebering too. Perhaps the most poignant moment in the story is Willie's image of his, and for a longer period, Spit's, waiting for the return of their beloved companion Harper, who never comes back. Now Spit is waiting again, peering out the door for Willie. Yet maybe its like Willie promised, if ever he gets to heaven, he's going to find Skip and all those relatives who went before him waiting to welcome him. Someday Spit with be united with him again, Willie believed that and I want to believe it too, for Willie and Spit and for all of us. On the last page of the book, Willie is holding the big cat on his lap and says to him, "Spitty, I love you." We chould all do that more often with the ones we care most about...this is a book about a cat and a special friendship, its a book of laughter and tears, its a book for everybody. I'm lucky to have known Willie Morris for just a moment, for far too short a time.
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For Cat Lovers Only
2000/1/17
形式:ハードカバー
I received this book for Christmas from my veterinarian daughter. It was a fun read, and as a lover of cats, and owner of two, it was just the type of book that contains many smiles and just enough laughs to keep me waiting for the next one. Mr. Morris had a true connection with Spit, and the book was meaningful to me because I, too, was once owned by a cat like Spit. The best parts of the book were the anecdotes recalled by the author, little occurences that stood out in his memory about Spit. Each one is guaranteed to make you smile, and think about the special cat in YOUR life. For instance, the author recalls the time he and his (human) buddies were watching a baseball game on television. They were all anxiously waiting to see if this would be the game in which Mark McGwire would break the home run record. Well, it was, and the reaction of the gang, including Spit, is guaranteed to make you smile. But I had to laugh out loud as he described the time he had decided to take Spit on the road with him, and tried to convince the cat that walking on a leash is perfectly normal and acceptable. For a cat? Spit did not agree, to say the least, and the three pages that followed had me in stitches! I recommend this book to anyone who has a cat in their life now, or has at any time loved and been loved by a cat.
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A Must Read
1999/12/4
形式:ハードカバー
I just finished reading "My Cat Spit McGee" and read it in almost one sitting! I could not put it down. Willie Morris conveys the emotional roller coaster every pet owner feels - from elation to uncertainty as he explores the almost mystical bond between pets and their owners. This is the story of a cat-hater turned cat-lover being transformed by an unlikely hero -Spit McGee. Willie's transformation doesn't happen overnight however. Willie's journey from a cat-hater to a cat-lover happens as a series of events - (some funny and some sad) unfold in this tale of two unlikely souls colliding. Brilliantly and beautifully written.
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