Oldcat and MS Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me

by Joe Taylor

A novel featuring inventive descriptive language follows Oldcat, an ex-football player, his wife Ms Puss, and their children Grr and Meow through courtship, middle age, and into retirement in a small Alabama town

176 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

I’ve had stories published in over 100 literary magazines. Pineapple, A Comic Novel in Verse, was published by Sagging Meniscus Press, as was Back to the Wine Jug, another novel in verse. NewSouth Books published The Theoretics of Love. Sagging Meniscus also published a story collection of mine, entitled Ghostly Demarcations. A previous novel of mine, Oldcat & Ms. Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me, was published several years ago by the now defunct Black Belt Press, and it was reviewed in Publishers Weekly. I have three story collections published, and I’ve edited several anthologies, notably, Belles’ Letters: Contemporary Fiction by Alabama Women and Tartts One through Five. I recently published a novel with the imposing title, Let There Be Lite, OR, How I Came To Know and Love Godel’s Incompleteness Proof. I’ve been the director of Livingston Press . . . forever.

Reviews

[Cindy Wall · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not get into this book because of the dialogue used to tell the story. Grammer and spelling are that of the Alabama Black Belt and I can hardly understand it spoken. Trying to read and translate isn't my thing.

[Patricia W · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazingly smart funny collection of related short stories. The voice of the humans is childlike which makes them so lovable, even when they are acting badly. It’s a story of a family: Old Cat, Miss Puss and their children Grrr and Meow, and their friends.