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Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

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English
Bantam USA
31 March 1999
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

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 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 form her haunting memories. Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate-and a finalist for the Booker Prize-Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.
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Imprint:   Bantam USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9780385491020
ISBN 10:   0385491026
Pages:   480
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, 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; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; and her most recent, MaddAddam. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.

Reviews for Cat's Eye

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE 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 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 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


  • Short-listed for Booker Prize 1989
  • Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 1989

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