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Cat's Eye

by Margaret Atwood

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ISBN13: 9780385491020
ISBN10: 0385491026
Condition: Standard
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This is my favorite out of all Margaret Atwood's books. It tells the story so convincingly of the cruelty and competition between young girls as viewed by the now older narrator Elaine. Complex and disturbing, Cat's Eye is a momentous book from one of Canada's most talented and provocative writers.
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Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman — but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

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"The best book in a long time on female friendships... Cat's Eye is remarkable, funny, and serious, brimming with uncanny wisdom." Cosmopolitan

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"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." Boston Sunday Globe

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"Stunning...Atwood conceives Elaine with a poet's transforming fire; and delivers her to us that way, a flame inside an icicle." Los Angeles Times
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About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than twenty-five books, including fiction, poetry, and essays. Her most recent works include the bestselling novels Alias Grace and The Robber Bride and the collections Wilderness Tips and Good Bones and Simple Murders. She lives in Toronto.
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carver, October 9, 2009 (view all comments by carver)
I have vastly enjoyed every book Margaret Atwood has ever written. However Cat's Eye was also nostalgic for me because I was born the same year Margaret Atwood was born. Even though she is from Canada and I from Oklahoma it was amazing to me how much our childhood's seemed the same. This book is absolutely true for curly haired girls born in 1939!
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lisa_emily, September 29, 2009 (view all comments by lisa_emily)
I read this book twice with ten years in between readings; it was just as powerful the second time around. The main theme of the story is centered on time: how a woman's perspective shifts as she moves through, and re-experiences time, and how she lives in multiple times. This sounds like a complex subject, and psychologically it can be, but Atwood creates a plot that is very human. I remember crying during the first read, I was surprised how much I cried again during the second read. Yet, the story is not written with a heavy emotional hand; at its simplest, it is a story of how a child becomes an adult. Yet, Atwood captures the everyday tragedy that happens on this path, the revelations that horrify, and the losses one endures.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780385491020
Author:
Atwood, Margaret
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Author:
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Girls
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Toronto
Subject:
Women painters
Subject:
Toronto (Ont.) Fiction.
Copyright:
1988
Edition Description:
1st Anchor Books ed.
Series Volume:
no. 57
Publication Date:
January 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
480
Dimensions:
8.10x5.26x1.00 in. .79 lbs.
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