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My all-time favourite book!
This book is about Elaine, a painter, whose return to Toronto unearths buried childhood memories. It is about the space-time continuum and the strange thin... READ MORE
Cat's Eye
Superbly dry, sometimes horrifying and suffused throughout with a peculiar autumnal chill, Cat's Eye is a gripping book about the delights and agonies of c... READ MORE
Synopsis
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.
'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood's games are played, exquisitely, by little girls' LISTENER
An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize
Publisher information
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN: 9780349013084
- Number of pages: 512
- Dimensions: 196 x 120 x 42 mm
- Weight: 399g