The Bachelor's Cat: A Love Story

by Lynn Hoffman

Book Overview

When a somewhat introverted and self-serving bachelor artist finds a stray kitten, he decides to take her in to see if he can, sustain a lasting and loving relationship with another living creature.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060191058
• ISBN13: 9780060191054
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!!!

This book is absolutely wonderful! I have read it again, and again, and again! It made me feel good, and gave me hope and faith in everything. I love the style in which it was written. I cannot imagine anyone not enjoying it and coming away with spirit uplifted after having read it. I am glad this book was written!

Kit Lit

I loved the book. The last chapter almost pulled the same manipulative ending as Breath, Eyes, Memory and Friendship Cake but thankfully didn't. Given the photograph on the back of the book, I have to wonder if the author was writing in part about himself. It was nice to see the Bachelor evolve as a character as the kitten brought out the best in him. Anyone who liked this book would also like Clevland Amory's books and James Herriot's Cat Stories. With so many of these sentimental books about men and their cats, do they count as a genre-"kit lit" perhaps?

loved it

i picked up and read this book in one seating and loved it. i enjoyed the man's gradual evolution from shallow to caring (despite himself ! ) and how the cat he took in taught him how to love. the end almost broke my heart and i was thankful there was a happy ending !! i have a cat and its true, they own and train us ! a wonderful book i think for everyone who has human frailities and for cat lovers.

WELL DONE - I ENJOYED EVERY WORD

A wonderfully done little book. It will take you about an hour our so to read and I must say, it is an hour well spent! I am a sucker for syntax and Mr Hoffman's is a joy to mull. The story is an honest story, warts and all as to the characters involved.I do hope we get more from Mr Hoffman - thank you for writing this book!

A wonderful read. Too close to home for comfort. I love it!

Fortunately or unfortunately this story mirrored my own all too well. The love that develops with trust, the clarity that is found in honesty with and to oneself. The simple beauty and kindnesses found between the covers of this book have in a single day worked to scrape away layers of doubt and to shed rays of light where there was a darkness. I told you, this was too close to home for comfort. Like so many things that I've discovered or uncovered recently, I found The Bachelor's Cat to be "exactly what I needed, when I needed it". "The shared experiance heals both." For this I thank Mr. Hoffman as well as for the warm story itself. I'm sure Mr. Hoffman will be glad to hear that I too, can no longer cast pearls before swine. And yes, my cat received some extra food and strokes tonight. Guess he approves as well.