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The cat's table [large print] / Michael Ondaatje.

Summary:

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a ship bound for England, and at mealtimes is seated at the 'cat's table' with a ragtag group of 'insignificant' adults and two other boys. 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.' But there are other diversions: one man talks to them about jazz and women, another about literature. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner - his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781611732245
  • ISBN: 1611732247
  • Physical Description: 311 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2011.

Content descriptions

Citation/References Note:
Booklist starred
Library Journal Starred
Pub Weekly
Booklist starred, September 2011
Kirkus Starred, April 2011
Library Journal Starred, July 2011
New York Times, October 2011
Pub Weekly, August 2011
Target Audience Note:
Adult
Adult Follett Library Resources
Subject:
Boys > Fiction.
Voyages and travels > Fiction.
Ocean travel > Fiction.
Boys.
Genre:
Large print books.
Action and adventure fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction
Sea fiction.

Available copies

  • 9 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library LP FIC ONDAATJE (Text) 36015000347035 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Sneads Ferry Branch Library LP FIC ONDAATJE (Text) 36015001294012 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -