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 disastrous ways. But it is the enigmatic Cordelia, once her tormentor, then her best friend, whose elusive yet powerful presence in her life Elaine finally comes to understand. The ...
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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 disastrous ways. But it is the enigmatic Cordelia, once her tormentor, then her best friend, whose elusive yet powerful presence in her life Elaine finally comes to understand. The realm of childhood and growing up, with its secrecies, cruelties, betrayals, and terrors, has never been so brilliantly evoked. By turns disquieting, humorous, compassionate, haunting and mordant," Cat's Eye" is vintage Atwood.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Pages lightly toned with age, otherwise text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned in a mylar cover.
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Very good. Uncorrected Proof Copy. 419pp. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling and abrasions to the spine. very good Painter Elaine Risley returns to her birth place of Toronto, where she is forced to confront her demons past and present-from her post-war school days, to the art-world of the 60s, to her most tumultuous relationships.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Fiction. Signed by Author. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned pages. Slight edge wear and discoloration to dust jacket. Signed by Margaret Atwood on the title page.
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