Cat's Eye
$38.73
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
9 January 1996
Summary
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.
“Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim…Atwood’s games are played, exquisitely, by little girls” - LISTENER
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853811265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853811262 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 199mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Virago Press |
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Not since Graham Greene or William Golding has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim…Atwood’s power games are played, exquisitely, by little girls - LISTENER
Irrestistible…This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it - THE TIMESAtwood’s taut and exquisite use of language makes all her books irresistable… - THE WEEKMargaret Atwood charts the psychological process of memory as compulsion and memory as a healing act through the character of Elaine Risley, an artist who returns to her home town of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. Elaine’s visit triggers though - - Chris Kellett, From 500 Great Books by Women, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEWAbout The Author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and now Oryx and Crake for the 2003 Booker prize. She has won many literary prizes in other countries.
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