Cat’s Eye (Magill Book Reviews)

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CAT’S EYE begins in the middle of things, flashing backward to moments from Elaine’s childhood and forward to her encounters in contemporary, trendy Toronto, a very different city from the one she abandoned. Stephen W. Hawking’s A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME provides an epigraph to the novel, and Elaine’s astrophysicist brother, also named Stephen, provides a theory of time that accounts for the spiral form and the desperate ambitions of the novel. “Time is not a line but a dimension,” he contends, and Elaine, for whom everything is “drenched in time,” begins to see the days...

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