Cat's Eye
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Atwood, Margaret |
| Subject: | FICTION / Canadian |
| FICTION / Coming of Age | |
| FICTION / Historical | |
| FICTION / Psychological | |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart |
| Published: | September 2011 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 496 |
| Size: | 7.98in x 5.20in x 1.33in |
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- $ 22.00
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | 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. By turns disquieting, humorous, compassionate, haunting and mordant, Cat's Eye is vintage Atwood. |
| Review Quote* | "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." The Boston Sunday Globe "Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking." The New York Times Book Review "The best book in a long time on female friendships.... Cat's Eye is remarkable, funny, and serious, brimming with uncanny wisdom." Cosmopolitan "No reader will fail to be moved, even to tears, by this novel. It is poignant and lingering." Calgary Herald "Lyrical, startling in its mastery of language, compelling in its handling of memory and forgetting, in its understanding of the ravages of the unransomed past." London Free Press "Irresistible.... This book is about life for all of us." The Times (UK) |
| Biographical Note | MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. She lives in Toronto. |