The Cat Who Came In From The Cold [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Author), Erik Steele (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2004

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Cats relish independence, and Billi is no exception. He wanders through the Indian countryside enjoying a sense of freedom, belonging to nobody. But the monsoon season has arrived, and Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is approaching. At a time when everyone is eager to be home with family and friends, Billi is alone . . . Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson offers cat lovers a magical story about a feline named Billi who became the first cat to choose domestication.

Available only in Wheeler Hardcover 6.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From AudioFile

Meet Billi, an Asian leopard cat with an aging but as yet untamed soul who embarks on a quest to learn more about the "two-foots" by asking their animal companions what they think of humans. Erik Steele masterfully narrates this fable by the author of WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP, giving unique voices to a cheetah, a water buffalo deeply saddened because people label her "unclean," a mongoose with a sobering tale of human prejudice and violence, and young elephants screaming with nightmares. Despite the harrowing tales of the lack of understanding humans have for animals, Steele's voice softens as Billi finally finds a mutually satisfying relationship with a young girl and becomes the first cat to choose domestication. K.A.T. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an alternate Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792733703
• ISBN-13: 978-0792733706
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,766,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Masson has had at least four lives: first as a boy raised to become a "spiritual leader" (see his denunciation of such a life in My Father's Guru). While in the middle of his disillusion, he became a professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto. At the same time he trained to become a Freudian analyst. Upon graduation he became Projects Director of the Freud Archives, and was scheduled to move into Freud's house in London when fate intervened: Masson found documents which seemed to show that Freud was right in believing that many women had been sexually abused as children, and that he was wrong to give up this belief, perhaps impelled by societal displeasure at his discoveries. Saying this publicly turned Masson into a psychoanalytic pariah, and he gave up both his professorship and his analytic career to delve into the far more fascinating world of animal emotions. Two of his books, WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP and DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE, were New York Times best-sellers. He became vegetarian as a result of his research, and later, when he looked into the feelings of farm animals, he became even stricter, and no longer eats or uses any animal product (vegan). Harpercollins published his most recent book: THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING: HOW DOGS HAVE CAPTURED OUR HEARTS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. He lives on a beach in New Zealand with his two sons, Ilan and Manu, and his German wife, Leila, a pediatrician who works with children on the autistic spectrum (using the bio-medical approach), Benjy, a golden lab, and three cats. They often travel to the States, Europe, and Australia. He is now fascinated in the "us/them" phenomenon, between humans but also between humans and animals.