Synopsis The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret worlds of friendship, longing, and betrayal.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1989-02-01 |
Publisher's Note Years after painter Elaine Risley flees Toronto for Vancouver, she returns to search for long-missing parts of her life and pursue the elusive Cordelia, her best friend and sometimes enemy.
Industry Reviews "CAT'S EYE is not only about memory, nor is it the chronicle of a particular life. It is a novel of images, nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking and mundane, that taken together offer us not a retrospective but an addition: a new work entirely and Margaret Atwood's most emotionally engaging fiction thus far." McDermott
"A brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic... The story of Elaine's childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer." McDermott
"Atwood presents the apprehensions of a ten-year-old so intensely that they almost seem to be the reader's own memories." Wilson
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