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Curtains for kitty! How to care for cats — and how to kill them

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats contains stories, cartoons and facts about felines, including the best way to get rid of them

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats The New Yorker (with a foreword by Anthony Lane)

Heinemann, pp.329, £30, ISBN: 97803943587950

The New Yorker has always had a peculiar affinity with cats, perhaps because they have a lot in common — an elegance, an abhorrence of sentimentality and an innate sense of superiority. The Big New Yorker Book of Cats is full of cats and owners, each holding one another at arm’s length and peering through invisible lorgnettes.

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