Cat's Eye - by Margaret Atwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b> <p/><i>Cat's Eye </i>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 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 form her haunting memories. Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate--and a finalist for the Booker Prize--<i>Cat's Eye </i>is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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. --<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i> <p/>Stunning...Atwood conceives Elaine with a poet's transforming fire; and delivers her to us that way, a flame inside an icicle. --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>The best book in a long time on female friendships... <i>Cat's Eye</i> is remarkable, funny, and serious, brimming with uncanny wisdom. --<i>Cosmopolitan</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Margaret Atwood, </b> whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include <i>Cat's Eye</i>, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; <i>Alias Grace</i>, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; <i>The Blind Assassin</i>, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; <i>Oryx and Crake</i>, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; <i>The Year of the Flood</i>, <i>MaddAddam</i>; and <i>Hag-Seed</i>. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.
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