Peter gethers norton death

Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of The Norton Trilogy. May 03, Tosha Sisler rated it really liked it Shelves: memoir , home-shelves. I read the first two novels in this trilogy. I loved the first one and found the second average. As I didn't want to read about the cat's death, I never attempted the third. Jun 06, Young Lightning in Dark Sky rated it it was amazing. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. These three books are perhaps the greatest tale ever written about the adventures of a human and pet with a special bonding. I must reach back in my memory because I read this ages ago, third grade I believe, and now I'm a big bad seventh grader, but anyhoo, I really enjoyed reading about Norton and Peter's lives. Their constant trips between France I think it was and New York entertained me and both personalities of the two main characters appealed tremendously to me.

It was suspenseful in a no These three books are perhaps the greatest tale ever written about the adventures of a human and pet with a special bonding. It was suspenseful in a not scary way, and I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to any age although there is some sexual reference from what I remember.

I read the part where Norton perished about a hundred times I think, as well as when Peter's father died. I just couldn't get over it, couldn't believe it, but all good things must come to an end, do they not?

Read it! Nov 05, Laura rated it it was amazing. OMG I cried my heart out at the end. Feb 15, The Reader rated it it was amazing. Without doubt one of THE best books or series about a real life feline.

RIP lovely lad. Feb 23, Jamie rated it it was amazing. Aug 04, Adrienne rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: cat lovers, anyone. There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp.

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Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The Cat Who Went to Paris 4. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. As he began traveling more frequently for work, Norton went along in an open-top canvas shoulder bag.

They hit Spain, Italy, Holland, France. Flight attendants, hoteliers and five-star chefs adored Norton. In Parisian restaurants, he sat on a chair, dined on herring tidbits and foie gras and acted dignified while Gethers socialized with folks such as Roman Polanski and Harrison Ford.

Their favorite hotel room had French doors, through which Norton had access to the roofs of Paris. It was published in , became a best seller, is still in print. It made Norton the most famous real-life pet cat in history. Now he was recognized not just by friends but also by total strangers in Sag Harbor, Sicily, Madrid. People now talked to him, ignoring Gethers, as if they thought the cat could answer. A second Norton book, "A Cat Abroad," was published in Norton soon took a shine to one of Gethers' friends, Janis.

Gethers liked her too--and the cat-man duo soon became a trio, with Janis the love interest for both males. The two humans are still together--although Norton left them on May 12, He is the only domestic feline ever to have rated a full-fledged obituary in The New York Times--with a photo.

It began: "Norton, a grayish cat with small folded ears, whose far-flung adventures were described in two books, died on Saturday. He was 16, said the person with whom he lived, the author Peter Gethers.

The new book details Gethers' life after Norton's illness was diagnosed. It is filled with love and fun--and the necessary sadness. He said he wrote this final opus because he realized that "until Norton, my relationships were not good. Then I fell so madly in love with this cat, and he taught me how to fall in love with people. One woman in particular. He made me a better partner, a better writer, taught me about getting older, being sick and being a caretaker, which I thought I could never be for anybody.

I cared for him like you would an aged parent. And that changed me. What I learned from Norton is that I am absolutely capable of commitment. William Jordan is a fastidious, fair-haired, compact "man of science. A student until 30, when he earned a doctorate in biology at Berkeley, he then rented a spartan space in Long Beach, Calif. He had no love of cats.

I'd just blow them away with a. Jordan is a speed talker, a man whose sentences trip over themselves racing to the next thought. For him, biology explains all human behavior. Speaking in the book-lined living room of his small Culver City, Calif. That compassion on-off mechanism is the major element in all human affairs. Yes, but back to the cat?

Jordan was 44, single, living alone. I was getting tired of just doing things for myself. This time he didn't.