Product Description: When Gerry Tremble and his family move from Connecticut to Florida to run his ailing father's hotel, they leave behind one family member who isn't about to take it lying down. He was just a pet cat they called Tony, but Windrusher is determined to find his family and sets off on a perilous journey filled with surprise and discovery.
WIndrusher's tension-filled quest builds to a heart-stopping climax, and Windrusher calls on resources he didn't know he had just to survive.
Windrusher is a rich tale of adventure and homecoming that will leave you craving another installment of this new American hero.
Bonding The connections made between the animal and human world as it relates to values was so vivid that when sharing this book with children it was clear to them what making decisions can lead to.
Divine Feline As a cat owner myself, I have high expectations when I read kitty stories. I was hooked the moment I opened Windrusher and read the first words of the novel: "Stuffed into a cage. Again." By the time I finished reading the passage, I was feeling claustrophopic and more than a little guilty about having to take my own cat to the Vet next morning. Didn't Hemingway once say that the primary objective of a writer is to make the reader feel? The rest of the book, if possible, achieved that objective even better than the first page. Overall, I found Windrusher to be a funny, well-written and fur-prisingly imaginative read, laden with insight about human and feline nature. I just ordered the next book in the series. (If I were a cat, I would like to be just like Wind). Kudos to Mr. DiGenti!
3 - 6 week delivery more like 3 - 6 months I generally am very happy with Amazon's service but I ordered this book and the sequel on September 27th, 2006. I received the sequel soon thereafter. This book I still have not seen. I am sure the book itself is delightful but the service is appalling. Do not believe that it will be delivered in "3 - 6 weeks". Amazon can not seem to deliver on this book. I will have to shop elsewhere at least for this title.
Windrusher's a great book Windrusher does for cats what J.R R. Tolkien did for hobbits. It's a tale of a cat on a mission that's suffused with the mystical power of cats in ancient Egypt. It's very inspiring, as Windrusher surmounts one unbelievable obstacle after another on a long journey, and, at times, it's just heartbreaking. You really can identify with the characters. Di Genti's verbal pallette of words paints vivid pictures in your mind's eye that makes it seem like you're IN the story, and not just reading it. I'd recommend it highly.
Surprised Me -- a good read I didn't plan on reading Windrusher nor did I think I'd like it, but somehow Victor DiGenti's style caught me and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's about a cat who goes to find his human family after he's given away because they move. He makes a long trek down the eastern seaboard to Florida to find them with help of his cat friends and their psychic communication called the Inner Ear.
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