Animals and Other People

AUTHOR   Louis Bromfield PUBLISHER   Wooster Book Co. (January 1, 2008) BINDING   Paperback CONDITION  New SUMMARY   Here is a book to delight people of all ages—excepting only those having no interest in living creatures. For this engaging volume, the author has drawn on his early books, revising and adding new material."Animals and Other People" is about wild and domestic animals, about pets—ranging from a wild tom turkey to a mongoose—and about people who are "teched" and have that inner sense and mystical feeling which makes them one with nature and with animals and birds.The book ranges from comedy to tragedy; which the "teched" know are as much a part of the lives of animals as of people. The stories are sensitive and intimate, for Bromfield is aware that every animal and bird has a personality of its own and that even among cows there are music lovers, clowns and termagants. As his youngest daughter once remarked as a child, "The trouble with the animals on this farm is that the