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.
About the author
Brian Doyle was a hirsute shambling shuffling mumbling grumbling muttering muddled maundering meandering male being who, until his untimely death in 2017 at age 60, edited Portland Magazine at the University of Portland in Oregon—the “best university magazine in America,” according to Newsweek, and “the best spiritual magazine in the country,” according to author Annie Dillard (clearly a woman of surpassing taste and discernment). Doyle was the author of many books, among them collections of essays (including Grace Notes, So Very Much the Best of Us, Reading in Bed, and One Long River of Song), nonfiction books, (including The Grail and The Wet Engine), collections of poems (including Epiphanies & Elegies and Thirsty for the Joy), and novels (including Chicago, Mink River, The Plover, Martin Marten, and The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of The World).
