An Old Woman and Her Cat
Doris Lessing
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society.An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling – when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.‘An Old Woman and Her Cat’ brilliantly combines Doris Lessing’s unforgiving examination of our society – and those it cannot accommodate and ulitmately fails – with a wonderful portrait of her favourite animal – the cat.This story also appears in the collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney.
An Old Woman and Her Cat
Doris Lessing
From The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories Volume Two
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © Doris Lessing 1972
This short story is from The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories Volume Two (Flamingo, 2002, previously published by Flamingo 1994, Triad Panther 1979, Jonathan Cape 1978)
It originally appeared in The Story of a Non-Marrying Man
Doris Lessing asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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An Old Woman and Her Cat (#ufbfc6764-57f2-5b83-a02c-081c128218e0)
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