Ps Your Cat is Dead
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (558 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 044689253X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A great read that will have you laughing out loud" according to gac100A great read that will have you laughing out loud The past few months have been terrible for James Zoole. His apartment's been robbed twice. His best friend Pete passed away. He was laid off from the play in which he had a lead role (and rehersals hadn't even started). His girlfriend Kate dumps him on New Year's Eve. And, Bobby Seale, his cat, died. What a way to bring in the new year!Feeling angry and sad, Jimmy decides to hole up in his apartment and to not answer the phone, knowing that if he'd been robbed twice, the burglar was sure to come back again. Enter Vito Antenucci, a bisexual burglar who returns for a third robbery. They struggle, and Jimmy knocks Vito out, then ties . . The past few months have been terrible for James Zoole. His apartment's been robbed twice. His best friend Pete passed away. He was laid off from the play in which he had a lead role (and rehersals hadn't even started). His girlfriend Kate dumps him on New Year's Eve. And, Bobby Seale, his cat, died. What a way to bring in the new year!Feeling angry and sad, Jimmy decides to hole up in his apartment and to not answer the phone, knowing that if he'd been robbed twice, the burglar was sure to come back again. Enter Vito Antenucci, a bisexual burglar who returns for a third robbery. They struggle, and Jimmy knocks Vito out, then ties . "Unequalled to any recent book with humor, satire, tears." according to A Customer. This book is just one of Kirkwood's many, with insight to human behaviour. He could get you spell-bound with his phrases, descriptions, dialog. Talked on phone one time with him, and he talked just like he wrote. When he died, I almost stopped reading. His 'dead cat' is just one which displays his ability to make you 'see' the characters, and know them. He could make your stomach hurt from laughing, reduce you to tears, and make you realize just how precious we all are. His 'dead cat' should be taught in schools; perhaps it would encourage more compassion and humor into our daily, often-stressed lives. Mr. Kirkwood had a unique way. you will never laugh harder, or loan - & lose - more copies scott nilsson if you love witty writing - this comedy of errors, losses and loves will break your heart with laughter. buy all the copies you can find. you will loan them all, lose them all - and happily go to great lengths to find more. it will make you lifelong friends with your local used book stores .life is never funnier, and rarely more challenging. "P.S." lampoons the seriousness with which we hold pale tragedy, and forces deeper examination of what is profound and important in life. and of the enduring nature of trust. part bombeck and buckwald and robin williams, part 'zen and the art', and as atmospheric as `la cage au folles' and `mid
Critical Praise for P.S. It is also a revealing book about burning your bridges behind you."- Sacramento Union"This novel is woven together with such artistic acumen that suspense never ebbs. The plot structure, characterization, dialog and style are virtually flawless." - Chicago Sun-Times"James Kirkwood manages to combine the most marvelous light witty dialogue with the most harrowing of eventsabsolutely fascinating -- I couldn't stop reading from the minute the first shot was fired."- Nora Ephron. Your Cat is Dead:"With every page the situation gets craz
It's New Year's Eve in New York City. "An instant classic upon its initial publication, P.S. Your best friend died in September, you've been robbed twice, your girlfriend is leaving you, you've lost your joband the only one left to talk to is the gay burglar you've got tied up in the kitchenP.S. your cat is dead. Your Cat Is Dead received widespread critical acclaim and near-fanatical reader devotion. The stage version of the novel was equally successful and there are still more than two hundred new productions of it staged every year. Now, for the first time in a decade, James Kirkwood's much-loved black-humor comic novel of manners and excalating disaster returns to bewitch and beguile a new generation."--BOOK JACKET.