Overview
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Picking up where those phenomenal bestsellers The Cat Who Came for Christmas and The Cat and the Curmudgeon left off, The Best Cat Ever is, in one sense the third and final volume of a trilogy, one which entails the trials and tribulations of the sublime Polar Bear versus his crafty owner, or rather ownee, the redoubtable author Cleveland Amory.
The Best Cat Ever is the most humorous of all Amory’s cat books, and it is also the most touching—a loving look back at the aforesaid trials and tribulations, all of which end in a kind of triumphal truce.
The chapter titles show the range of the book: in “A Cat for All Seasons”, when Amory is taken ill, Polar Bear takes on the job, against a phalanx of hospital nurses, of both watch cat and guard cat…
In “My Harvard”, Polar Bear faithfully attends a class reunion at Amory’s alma mater and becomes privy to such dark secrets as how Amory and his roommate first conducted a successful search for the all-time easiest course ever offered in Harvard’s catalogue and then brazenly enrolled in same…
In “My Last Duchess and 4,000 Other Celebrities”, when Amory undertakes the autobiography of her late Highness, Polar Bear arrives on the scene too late to warn of the impending disaster but nonetheless ensures that no such untoward goings-on would be countenanced under his reign…
In “Polar Bear and Me and Your TV—Your Guide to the Medium Medium”, Polar Bear, like so many of his kind a world-class critic himself, takes a critical look at Amory’s tenuous tenure as chief critic of TV Guide…
And finally, in “The Miracles of Modern Medicine—and Some Objections to Same”, Polar Bear and Amory are afflicted with an age-old illness of man and cat—something which is most in need of, if not a modern miracle, at least a good old-fashioned one.
All in all, The Best Cat Ever is Amory’s best book ever—the witty and wise conclusion to a wonderful love story.