Brian Doyle has written a supberly intriguing novel...

What if a man who lost his foot in a war decides, many years later, to find it? “It was a good foot, and we parted so hurriedly I never had a chance to really think about it as a foot, so off I went…” So begins this lean little novel – a quest, a wandering, a contemplation of the immense foolishness of war. Terse but filled with adventure and wonder, Cat’s Foot is surely the most unusual fiction you will read this year – or perhaps any year…

“Along Cat's implausible journey to find something impossible to find, you hear him say things you never heard before, told in ways that make you marvel. Cat's eyes have seen everything it seems. Forgotten nothing.” – Bill Gunlocke, Editor, a city reader

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Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland. He is the author of twelve books, among them the novel Mink River, the short story collection Bin Laden’s Bald Spot, and the essay collection Grace Notes. Among the more astounding and puzzling honors for his work are the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2008 Award in Literature, and the University of Notre Dame’s Father Robert Griffin Award for Writing, in 2010. That award earned him a free steak dinner, which he remembers fondly.

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