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Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

1989421 pagesabout 6–10 hours
1989
first published
  • 1989Bloomsbury · 421 pages · ENGISBN 9780747503040
  • 1989Bantam Books · 445 pages · ENGISBN 9780553282474
  • 1989Seal Books · 445 pages · ENGISBN 9780770423346
  • 1990G.K. Hall · 578 pages · ENGISBN 9780816148905
  • 1995Bantam Books · 462 pages · ENGISBN 9780553377903
  • 1998Anchor Books · 477 pages · ENGISBN 9780385491020
  • 2007Bloomsbury · 421 pages · ENGISBN 9780747590125
  • 2011Emblem Editions · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780771008931

**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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