My beloved monster : Masha, the half-wild rescue cat who rescued me / Caleb Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Caleb, 1955-2024, author.

Contributor:

Little, Brown and Company, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carr, Caleb, 1955-2024.

Carr, Caleb.

Siberian cat.

Cats--Biography.

Cats.

Cat owners--United States--Biography.

Cat owners.

Human-animal relationships.

Cats--Behavior.

Cat adoption.

Cat rescue.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

autobiographies (literary genre)

Physical Description:

viii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024.

Summary:

"Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior. For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb's life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha's inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests--a love story like no other"--Dust jacket flap.

Contents:

Part one: Destinies. Prelude: 17 years

The encounter

'You have to take that cat!'

The cat-boy

Masha unbound

A mystery unfolds

Masha double downs

Wrapped inside an enigma

The brave wounded

Part two: Arenas. Lions were slaughtered there, too

The blood rites of spring

Unus ex debilatum

The stairway to nowhere

Wounds of a warrior queen

City for conquest

She beat up a what?

Part three: Campaigns. The lady vet

Watchcat

Pacts

Echoes

Bonded fidelity

Devil cat and demon dogs

Two afflictions, one struggle

The wraith

Striking a bargain

Göttindämmerun

Mors Fortium

Epilogue: Legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780316503600

0316503606

OCLC:

1381946453