Cat’s Eye (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: Toronto
- Principal Characters: Elaine Risley, Cordelia, Carol Campbell, Grace Smeath, Mrs. Smeath, Jon, Ben, Mr. Risley, Stephen, Josef Hrbik, Susie, Sarah, Anne, Andrea
- Genres: Long fiction, Didactic literature
- Subjects: Girls, Children, Friendship, Canada or Canadians, Painting or painters, Cruelty, Behaviorism, Middle age, Time
- Locales: Ilium, NY, San Lorenzo, Caribbean
Cat’s Eye is not the first book to which Canada’s most lionized author—of fiction, poetry, and essays—has assigned a feline title. When she was five years old, Margaret Atwood assembled a collection of verses she called Rhyming Cats. More than twenty other books and forty- four years later, Atwood offers her seventh novel, her first since the 1986 best-seller The Handmaid’s Tale. If contemporary narrative seems like the emperor’s new clothes, Atwood’s book, her longest, ought to please the perplexed reader like the cat’s pajamas.
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