The Abandoned

Name: The Abandoned
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By: Paul Gallico

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Hardcover | 9 April 2013

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Peter is a lonely boy living in London, left by his party-hopping parents to the brusque attentions of an untender nanny. He's a lonely, bored, unhappy boy, though one thing, Peter is sure, would make up for everything: how he would love to have a cat! Impossible, the grown-ups all agree, but Peter goes on yearning until one day, on his way out the door, he sees a stray tabby in the street, right in the path of a speeding car. He dashes out to save the cat, is hit by the car himself, and when he comes to, finds himself transformed into a cat and under the care of Jennie, the tabby whose life he saved.

Life isn't easy for cats in London, and Peter has a lot to learn. Luckily Jennie knows how to get by and is happy to teach Peter the tricks of feline survival. Peter and Jenny have all sorts of perilous adventures together, in the course of which Jennie slowly reveals the past experiences that have left her with a hardened distrust of and ingrained contempt for human beings. But Peter still believes that cats and people belong together. He still dreams of a home where he and Jennie will at last be able to settle down.

Paul Gallico's The Abandoned is a book that will delight and move lovers of cats and adventure alike.

Industry Reviews

"Unalloyed delight.... You should be warned that if you hate cats you'd better not read this story, for it will so entertain you and instruct you in the ways of cats that your interest and liking will be aroused in spite of you." --Chicago Daily Tribune "When I was 9 years old I plucked The Abandoned from my school library's dusty shelves and fell in love with literature. The adventures that unfolded, reminiscent of The Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan, captured me so thoroughly I knew writing was part of my destiny." --Naomi Serviss, Newsday

"This is one of Gallico's best works, making a perfect companion to his more famous 'Thomasina' and telling of a boy transposed into the body of a cat by accident. His life as a cat involves many hard lessons from companion Jennie in this excellent, sensitive story." --Midwest Book Review

"Unalloyed delight. . . .You should be warned that if you hate cats you'd better not read this story, for it will entertain you and instruct you in the ways of cats, that your interest and liking will be aroused in spite of you." --Chicago Sunday Tribune

"In portraying Jennie, a London tabby, Paul Gallico has given us not only a cat's-eye-view of the cosmos, but also a cat immortal." --Saturday Review of Literature

"Poetry and fantasy so skillfully impregnate the story that a parable of haunting wistfulness emerges." --Christian Science Monitor

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