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Rent Cat's Eye
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Jan 1998
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 480
Synopsis
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.
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Reviews
Although a bit melancholy at times, Atwood's tale of an artist returning to her 'hometown' of Toronto for a retrospective of her art career (and a retrospective of her formative years) is thoroughly engrossing. The description of the art scene in the 60's and the gentrification of Toronto are wonderful as are the descriptions of her paintings. The childhood drama of acceptance is dead-on. Makes me eager to read more of Margaret Atwood's novels