Margaret Atwood: Cat's eye (1988, Doubleday)
446 pages
English language
Published Aug. 22, 1988 by Doubleday.
Cat's Eye 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 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 her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.
This stirred emotions in me that I did not like one bit but had to observe. The writing was gentle and detailed observation, the observed was tough to see.
