Cat's Eye
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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
Review
I read this when I was about sixteen and remember its menace. It is about the potential toxicity in female friendships, which is a contentious issue. Atwood is never pigeonholed, she's wry and has a poet's eye -- Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
Not since Graham Greene or William Golding has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood's power games are played, exquisitely, by little girls ― LISTENER
Irrestistible...This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it ― THE TIMES
Atwood's taut and exquisite use of language makes all her books irresistable... ― THE WEEK
Margaret Atwood charts the psychological process of memory as compulsion and memory as a healing act through the character of Elaine Risley, an artist who returns to her home town of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. Elaine's visit triggers though ― - Chris Kellett, From 500 Great Books by Women, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW
Not since Graham Greene or William Golding has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood's power games are played, exquisitely, by little girls ― LISTENER
Irrestistible...This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it ― THE TIMES
Atwood's taut and exquisite use of language makes all her books irresistable... ― THE WEEK
Margaret Atwood charts the psychological process of memory as compulsion and memory as a healing act through the character of Elaine Risley, an artist who returns to her home town of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. Elaine's visit triggers though ― - Chris Kellett, From 500 Great Books by Women, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.
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| Autor |
Margaret Atwood |
|---|---|
| Vydavatel |
Virago
Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DZ, United Kingdom
info@littlebrown.co.uk
https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/
+44 20 7873 6000
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| Jazyk | anglicky |
| Vazba | měkká |
| Počet stran | 512 |
| Formát | 12,7 × 19,7 cm |
| EAN | 9781853811265 |
| Rok vydání | 2009 |
| Edice |
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Margaret Atwood
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