Cat's Eye

In Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel, an artist returning to her home city is consumed by images of the lavish cruelties she endured there as a child."Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking." — The New York Times Book ReviewElaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayal 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."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 GlobeMargaret Atwood is the world-renowned author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which won the Booker Prize. She has also been shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2005 and 2007 for her entire body of work. Controversial Painter Elaine Risley Returns From Vancouver For A Retrospective Of Her Work. Here, In Toronto, The City Of Her Youth, She Confronts The Submerged Layers Of Her Past – Her Unconventional Family, Her Eccentric And Brilliant Brother, The Self-righteous Mrs. Smeath, And The Two Men Elaine Later Came To Love In Diverse And Sometimes Disastrous Ways. But It Is The Enigmatic Cordelia, Once Her Tormentor, Then Her Best Friend, Whose Elusive Yet Powerful Presence In Her Life Elaine Finally Comes To Understand. The Realm Of Childhood And Growing Up, With Its Secrecies, Cruelties, Betrayals, And Terrors, Has Never Been So Brilliantly Evoked. By Turns Disquieting, Humorous, Compassionate, Haunting And Mordant, Cat’s Eye Is Vintage Atwood. From The Hardcover Edition.