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Michael J. Cox

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  • The Cat's Table | [Michael Ondaatje]
    The Cat's Table
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    The Cat's Table

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
    • By Michael Ondaatje
    • Narrated By Michael Ondaatje
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    (172)
    Story
    (167)

    In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table” - as far from the Captain’s Table as can be - with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury.

    Amanda says: "Superb - But Not For All Readers or All Situations"
    "what a story and what a narrator!"
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    What made the experience of listening to The Cat's Table the most enjoyable?

    Listening to the author read his autobiographical, if perhaps somewhat novelistically enhanced, story of his boyhood adventures aboard the ship "Oronsay," is possibly the most rewarding audible experience I've had, certainly in my top five audiobooks. The pacing is perfect, and even though Ondatjee doesn't "do voices" for different characters, you practically always know who is speaking by the intonation and context. I so like this audiobook I"m going to buy the book to savor it again as a read, but I highly recommend this audiobook.


    If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

    A boys sea voyage changes everyone aboard.


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