Cat's eye

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $6.66

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $4.57

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.28

  Margaret Atwood explores the ambiguous roots of women's relationships in her latest novel, which tells the story of a woman obsessed with memories of the past. Elaine Risley returns to Toronto to seek her elusive friend Cordelia, who was the cause of childhood cruelty and terror many years earlier. Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, writer and literary critic who has written six previous novels, the last of which, The Handmaid's Tale , was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $12.68

  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