Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

Language: English

Published: Jan 2, 1988

Form: Novel
Pages: 408
Word Count: 137608

Description:

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the 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 Cordelia's haunting memory. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, *Cat's Eye* is a breathtaking contemporary novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.