''The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human'' is the third and final memoir by

Peter Gethers Peter Gethers (born 1955) is an American publisher, screenwriter and author of television shows, films, newspaper and magazine articles, and novels; he is the author of several books, including the bestseller '' The Cat Who Went to Paris'', publi ...

that documents his life with his

cat The cat (''Felis catus''), also referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae. Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the ...

Norton, a

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. The first two books in the series were '' The Cat Who Went to Paris'' (published in 1991) and '' A Cat Abroad'' (published in 1993).

Description

Gethers documents the final portion of Norton's life and the repercussions of Norton's death. The stories example further travels to Europe, book tours, and final travels in the USA, until Norton's death on 8 May 1999. Gethers had not planned a third book about Norton, until "thousands of e-mail messages and letters changed his mind".

Reception

Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of ...

reviewed the book saying, that Gethers is "at his best" when talking about Norton, especially about "his own mixed feelings about Norton's success", noting the author's ambivalence, especially given that the cat was given an obituary in ''

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'' along with "

Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick filmography, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or sho ...

Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio (; born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, ; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career ...

and

King Hussein Hussein bin Talal (14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Hussein was traditionally considered a 40th-generati ...

". Eva Lautemann, of

The Library Journal ''Library Journal'' is an American trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey. It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practi ...

, reviewed the book saying, "This bittersweet story of a cat who teaches his human friend lessons in loving and coping with illness is essential for all public libraries.

References

External links

Penguin Random House publisher page on ''The Cat Who'll Live Forever''

Penguin Random House publisher page on the 'Norton the Cat Series' by Peter Gethers

Google Books page on ''The Cat Who'll Live Forever''
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