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Cats Eye
Cats Eye
Author: Margaret Atwood
Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here, in Toronto, the city of her youth, she confronts the submerged layers of her past ? her unconventional family, her eccentric and brilliant brother, the self-righteous Mrs. Smeath, and the two men Elaine later came to love in diverse and sometimes di...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781853811265
ISBN-10: 1853811262
Publication Date: 11/1995
Pages: 432
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Publisher: Virago Pr
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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This is a story about how being bullied as a child shapes your life. The characters are richly developed and believable. We've all known an Elaine or Cordelia in our early years - or we've been one. Atwood is a wonderful story teller and at times her words are more poetry than prose. The ending was a bit of a let down for me. I kept waiting for the twist or big revelation to surface. Instead, it just sort of bubbled to the top.


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