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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
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The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, 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 worlds of friendship, longing, and betrayal.
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9780385491020,
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Anchor Books,
1998
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9780553377903,
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Bantam Dell Pub Group,
1996
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9780385260077,
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Bantam Dell Pub Group,
1989
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9780771008177,
Book,
McClelland and Stewart,
1988
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9780770428235,
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Bantam Books of Canada Ltd,
1999
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9780770423346,
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McClelland & Stewart Ltd,
1989
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9780553452037,
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Random House,
1989
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9780553282474,
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Bantam Books,
1989
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9780816148905,
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Thorndike Pr,
1990
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9781853811265,
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Trafalgar Square,
1995
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9780613377034,
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Bt Bound,
2001
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Publisher Notes
Years after painter Elaine Risley flees Toronto for Vancouver, she returns to search for long-missing parts of her life and pursue the elusive Cordelia, her best friend and sometimes enemy.
Media Reviews
"CAT'S EYE is not only about memory, nor is it the chronicle of a particular life. It is a novel of images, nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking and mundane, that taken together offer us not a retrospective but an addition: a new work entirely and Margaret Atwood's most emotionally engaging fiction thus far."
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