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by Margaret Atwood ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 17, 1988

All the better Atwood trademarks are here—wry humor, unforgiving detailed observation, a tart prose style—and likely to...

Atwood's wide-screen, cautionary Handmaid's Tale (1986) confirmed the author's place in the major leagues, and here she follows up with a work of intensity and tart wit.

Pub Date: Feb. 17, 1988

ISBN: 0385491026

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: Sept. 16, 2011

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 1988

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by Kazuo Ishiguro ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 11, 2005

A masterpiece of craftsmanship that offers an unparalleled emotional experience. Send a copy to the Swedish Academy.

An ambitious scientific experiment wreaks horrendous toll in the Booker-winning British author’s disturbingly eloquent sixth novel (after When We Were Orphans , 2000).

Ishiguro’s narrator, identified only as Kath(y) H., speaks to us as a 31-year-old social worker of sorts, who’s completing her tenure as a “carer,” prior to becoming herself one of the “donors” whom she visits at various “recovery centers.” The setting is “England, late 1990s”—more than two decades after Kath was raised at a rural private school (Hailsham) whose students, all children of unspecified parentage, were sheltered, encouraged to develop their intellectual and especially artistic capabilities, and groomed to become donors. Visions of Brave New World and 1984 arise as Kath recalls in gradually and increasingly harrowing detail her friendships with fellow students Ruth and Tommy (the latter a sweet, though distractible boy prone to irrational temper tantrums), their “graduation” from Hailsham and years of comparative independence at a remote halfway house (the Cottages), the painful outcome of Ruth’s breakup with Tommy (whom Kath also loves), and the discovery the adult Kath and Tommy make when (while seeking a “deferral” from carer or donor status) they seek out Hailsham’s chastened “guardians” and receive confirmation of the limits long since placed on them. With perfect pacing and infinite subtlety, Ishiguro reveals exactly as much as we need to know about how efforts to regulate the future through genetic engineering create, control, then emotionlessly destroy very real, very human lives—without ever showing us the faces of the culpable, who have “tried to convince themselves. . . . That you were less than human, so it didn’t matter.” That this stunningly brilliant fiction echoes Caryl Churchill’s superb play A Number and Margaret Atwood’s celebrated dystopian novels in no way diminishes its originality and power.

Pub Date: April 11, 2005

ISBN: 1-4000-4339-5

Page Count: 304

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2005

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ABSOLUTE POWER

by David Baldacci ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 18, 1996

The mother of all presidential cover-ups is the centerpiece gimmick in this far-fetched thriller from first-novelist Baldacci, a Washington-based attorney. In the dead of night, while burgling an exurban Virginia mansion, career criminal Luther Whitney is forced to conceal himself in a walk-in closet when Christine Sullivan, the lady of the house, arrives in the bedroom he's ransacking with none other than Alan Richmond, President of the US. Through the one-way mirror, Luther watches the drunken couple engage in a bout of rough sex that gets out of hand, ending only when two Secret Service men respond to the Chief Executive's cries of distress and gun down the letter-opener-wielding Christy. Gloria Russell, Richmond's vaultingly ambitious chief of staff, orders the scene rigged to look like a break-in and departs with the still befuddled President, leaving Christy's corpse to be discovered at another time. Luther makes tracks as well, though not before being spotted on the run by agents from the bodyguard detail. Aware that he's shortened his life expectancy, Luther retains trusted friend Jack Graham, a former public defender, but doesn't tell him the whole story. When Luther's slain before he can be arraigned for Christy's murder, Jack concludes he's the designated fall guy in a major scandal. Meanwhile, little Gloria (together with two Secret Service shooters) hopes to erase all tracks that might lead to the White House. But the late Luther seems to have outsmarted her in advance with recurrent demands for hush money. The body count rises as Gloria's attack dogs and Jack search for the evidence cunning Luther's left to incriminate not only a venal Alan Richmond but his homicidal deputies. The not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper climax provides an unsurprising answer to the question of whether a US president can get away with murder. For all its arresting premise, an overblown and tedious tale of capital sins. (Film rights to Castle Rock; Book-of-the-Month selection)

Pub Date: Jan. 18, 1996

ISBN: 0-446-51996-0

Page Count: 480

Publisher: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 1995

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February 5, 1989 What Little Girls Are Made Of By ALICE McDERMOTT CAT'S EYE By Margaret Atwood. ime is not a line but a dimension,'' the narrator, Elaine Risley, tells us at the beginning of this, Margaret Atwood's seventh and most affecting novel. ''You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.'' Elaine is a Canadian painter of some renown who, at 50, has returned to her childhood city of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. The dull, provincial city of her youth has become world class in the intervening years, ''New York without the garbage and muggings,'' but in the week she is there her interest in the city's new galleries and restaurants and shops and, in many ways, in the retrospective itself, is only glancing. Her focus, and the novel's, is all on the past, on those images that surface unexpectedly, relentlessly, amid the glitz of the transformed city, images of the dead, of a lost time, and of Cordelia, her childhood friend and tormentor, her double. Elaine's first eight years are spent on the road with her family, as her father, an entomologist, tracks infestations across northern Canada. For Elaine and her brother it is an enchanted existence, ''irregular, and slightly festive,'' a life of motels and housekeeping cottages and tents, but it little prepares her for the life that is to follow when her parents move to Toronto, to a new and only partially completed tract house in a growing postwar suburb. There, amid the tightly prescribed rituals of that time and place, she quickly learns that there are ''things my parents have been keeping from me, things I need to know'': a whole vocabulary of household words, ''chintz,'' ''coat tree,'' ''cold wave,'' the intricacies of churchgoing and Sunday school (''The hats, for instance: how could my mother have forgotten about the hats?''), the need for braids, dressing gowns, purses, in short, the whole, complicated, shifting world of ''girls and their doings.'' It is a world that Margaret Atwood portrays with deadly accuracy, a lonely, terrifying place where time is marked by the endless procession of paper pumpkins and snowmen and tulips that are hung in classroom windows, and the future, with all its repulsive, distinctly feminine mysteries, is only a threat. At its center is Cordelia. Cordelia lives in one of the larger houses that have sprung up from the mud, a house with two stories, and a powder room, napkin rings, egg cups. Her mother paints and has a cleaning woman, her two older, ''gifted'' sisters speak, as does Cordelia, in an ''extravagant, mocking way.'' In this girls' world of propriety, innuendo, uncertainty, Cordelia will say anything, do anything. She is scornful, manipulative, wild. Elaine adores her and Cordelia finds in Elaine a perfect foil for all her own apprehensions. Elaine, Cordelia proclaims, needs improvement. ''I am not normal, I am not like other girls. Cordelia tells me so, but she will help me. . . . It will take hard work and a long time.'' In the campaign of terror that follows, Cordelia and her two friends surround Elaine throughout her day, pointing out her failings, her weaknesses, mocking the way she walks, the way she eats, the way she laughs. They torment her with her own image, ostracize her, and in a terrible bit of play-acting, bury her alive. Elaine submits. ''They are my friends, my girl friends, my best friends. I have never had any before and I'm terrified of losing them. I want to please.'' It is, as Elaine says, ''the kind of thing girls of this age do to one another, or did then,'' and it nearly costs Elaine her life until a miracle, or merely the hallucination of one, finally frees her from Cordelia's spell. As teen-agers, the two girls briefly renew their friendship but with Elaine now, not Cordelia, as the stronger one, the needed one, the one who has learned the power of cruelty. All this is vintage Atwood: the precise and devastating detail, the sense of the ordinary transformed into nightmare, the quiet desperation of characters trapped, silenced, utterly alone. Inevitably, the emotional intensity of these early scenes makes the more familiar material of Elaine's later life seem somewhat anticlimactic. Leaving Cordelia behind, Elaine begins to study drawing, has an affair with her teacher, marries another art student and is caught up, reluctantly, in the dawning feminist movement. She has a child, attempts suicide (urged on by what she describes as a 9-year-old's voice) and finally flees Toronto. She sees Cordelia twice as an adult, the second and final time when Cordelia is a resident of a ''discreet private loony bin,'' drugged, trapped, ''a frantic child . . . behind that locked, sagging face.'' The nightmare has been exchanged between them. And yet nothing goes away. Cordelia appears in every image Elaine has of herself, every self-doubt, every fear, in her every wish to be loved. Cordelia's doppelganger haunts Elaine's return to Toronto but at the retrospective itself her face does not appear among the crowd at the gallery, much as Elaine longs to see it. Yet time is fluid, it ''turns back upon itself, like a wave,'' and in one final gesture of conciliation, Elaine visits the place where they were young together and at last extricates herself from the past by imaginatively returning to Cordelia ''something you can never have, except from another person: what you look like from outside. A reflection.'' Given the artist narrator and the retrospective that frames the novel (in which Elaine includes a self-portrait called ''Cat's Eye''), it is tempting to use the book as a guide to Ms. Atwood's own work, to hear the author's voice in Elaine's, especially when she discusses feminism (''I avoid gatherings of these women, walking as I do in fear of being sanctified, or else burned at the stake'') or fame (''Eminence creeps like gangrene up my legs'') or her art itself (''I have said, Look. I have said, I see''). But while reading the novel as Ms. Atwood's own midlife assessment of her life and her work adds a certain significance to its conclusion and may lead us to speculate further on some elements of the story that the character does not confront - the undercurrent of misogyny, the joylessness in a life that is in every other respect carefully recounted - it in no way adds to the pleasure the book provides. For finally ''Cat's Eye'' is not only about memory, nor is it the chronicle of a particular life. It is a novel of images, nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking and mundane, that taken together offer us not a retrospective but an addition: a new work entirely and Margaret Atwood's most emotionally engaging fiction thus far. Alice McDermott is the author of two novels, ''A Bigamist's Daughter'' and ''That Night.'' DIFFERENT BRANDS OF MEANNESS The Toronto of ''Cat's Eye'' is a state of mind that Margaret Atwood can talk about. ''I grew up all over the place,'' she said in a recent telephone interview, ''but I went to high school in Toronto, I went to some of public school in Toronto, and I went to university in Toronto. So that's enough Toronto to keep one for a while.'' It was after creating the futuristic world of ''The Handmaid's Tale'' that the author depicted the very real one of ''Cat's Eye.'' It had begun to take shape, in starts, earlier. ''The whole idea had been kicking around in my head for about 24 years,'' she said, ''because when I looked back to 1964 I found that I had some notes for a book with some of the same material in it.'' That material - the clothes, the speech, what she calls the ''items'' of the 1940's and 50's - emerged from the details of ''a very puritanical, button-down, rigid society,'' and the school system Ms. Atwood describes was ''a relic of the Empire,'' though not so different, she supposes, from those in the United States in the 50's. As for the ''little-girl behavior'' that is the dramatic thread of the book, ''that is with all of us,'' she said. ''The same-sex socialization, to borrow a phrase, that goes on between the ages of 8 or so and 11 or 12 tends to get passed over, particularly with little girls, as not very important. But when you talk to real women and ask them how important it was to them, you get a different answer.'' Is there a little-girl brand of cruelty? ''All children can be pretty mean to one another, and that's not to deny that they can be pretty wonderful, but I think the methods differ between boys and girls.'' Ms. Atwood left Canada to live and travel in the United States and Europe, but is now living once again in Toronto, with the novelist Graeme Gibson and their daughter, Jess, who is 12. This time, she reports, it is ''quite a different kind of city.'' --LAURA MANSNERUS Return to the Books Home Page

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Review: cat's eye by margaret atwood.

You don't look back along time, but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away. (p. 1)

20 comments:

I guess nothing has changed much, except technology. Mothers aren't always the problem, but often they are. Don't think I don't keep that in my mind every time I open my mouth!

I have several Atwood books (this one too) unread. I like the sound of this one. Wasn't aware an audio was available - I should check the library. I just finished Bel Canto (audio) but haven't reviewed it yet. Once again, Thanks for your thoughts of concern for me during Hurricane Irene; I appreciate that.

I meant to read this a long time ago but never got around to it. Your review is terrific and now I'll have to move this book up on my list!

I have only read a smattering of Atwood, and although I do have this book, I have not read it yet. I think the way Atwood handles bullying and twisted friendships in this book sounds very interesting, and the book would probably make me reconsider some of the issues that I had growing up. Very nice review. I need to read this one soon.

I finally finished my first Atwood this year (Oryx & Crake) but she still intimidates the heck out of me. I didn't know there was an audio of this book and you make it sound really good. I'm going to check and see if the library has it!

I think no matter what generation we are, we've either been bullied or known someone who was. Of course, none of us would be bullies, no way! This book sounds like something I would enjoy. Even in old age, I remember being bullied and how it made me feel.

We read this one for my book club a few years ago. It was only okay for me. It did generate some good discussion though.

I read my first Atwood book last year and I'm ready for another one. This one looks like it would keep me thinking for a long time.

Cat's Eye is one of my very favorite Atwood books. Thanks for reminding about this book, which I haven't read in so long.

It sounds like girls' friendships haven't changed much over the years, and that makes me rather sad. This sounds like a book I'd like.

Wow, this looks REALLY good. I really haven't gotten to Atwood, yet, though she's been put in my direction many times. Guess it's time to get on that, eh?

Atwood novels are so hit-and-miss for me -- some I love, others I don't. But the setting of this sounds good -- I do enjoy feminist fiction so I might have to give this a try! (Also, I heart the cover.)

I read this book years ago. I remember that I found it difficult to get into at first - but then I loved it. Fortunately my own experience was nothing like it, but my granddaughter has some rather cruel 'friends' who sometimes want to know her and at other times are so mean. Nothing really changes - sad!

Sadly, I have not read any Atwood. This does sound like an excellent book club selection. Thanks for the review.

Ah, this one sounds like Atwood in great shape! Perhaps I should order it for our school...

Cat's Eye is my favorite Atwood (with The Robber Bride a close second) and it's definitely time to revisit.. may consider audio this time around.

I thought I had read this but, reading your description, I don't think I have.

I read this about 100 years ago (or 20) as part of a class reading list. Your review makes me realize how much I missed (the workload?), perhaps it's time for a re-read. How did you like this particular audio production?

I think this is my favorite Atwood, after The Handmaid's Tale. But I still have lots of her books left to read. Next up is The Robber Bride.

I've re-read this one once already, but you've made me want to revisit it again. There are so many layers that it's definitely worth spending more time with. Glad to hear the audio brought it all back for you!

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Review of Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye

by Margaret Atwood

As we dove into summer I read my first Atwood novel, The Handmaid’s Tale , thereby establishing some ground rules for our relationship. We decided to agree to disagree when it comes to style so that I could continue appreciating her strong motifs and themes. Now as we dip our toes into autumn, I am now one more book into Atwood’s oeuvre, and this truce appears to be holding. If anything, Cat’s Eye is preferable according to my own tastes in style—and I really enjoyed the story too. This is a book that wallows in recounting childhood—much like Never Let Me Go or, more broadly, any John Irving novel. Those types of stories are, almost by definition, easily able to invoke an atmosphere of nostalgia, of loss and regret, of pain and yearning for the happy and sad days of yore. Atwood plays this instrument with all the skill of a virtuoso.

I’m having a difficult time writing this review. Maybe Atwood coated this book in a non-stick polymer: everything I write quickly degenerates into plot summary. The trouble is just that Atwood manages to capture the bizarre mainstays of childhood traumas (including rivalry, peer pressure, and bullying) and develop them so organically that all my attempts at commenting on this just fall flat. We’ve all been there, and while not all of us had experiences similar to Elaine’s—my childhood was, on the whole, rather good and uneventful—we can still identify with what happens to her.

I do love the gradual way Atwood develops Elaine’s relationship with Grace, Carol, and Cordelia. At first the teasing she endures seems to be typical of children, but soon one realizes that it has gone past that: Cordelia, assisted by Grace and Carol, is a bully. Hindsight allows the adult Elaine to acknowledge this, but childhood Elaine, even if she knew subconsciously that Cordelia’s treatment was wrong, refused to stop calling them her “friends”. Even after child-Elaine realizes that Grace’s mother knows the score and refuses to stop it—ostensibly because it’s supposed to “civilize” the heathen child—it isn’t until Elaine has a close brush with hypothermia before she and her mother realize the severity of the situation. But nothing is black and white, and the bully from childhood becomes a companion in high school—albeit one who is not necessarily all that close.

Cat’s Eye takes place in that interesting first-person style where none of the other people feel all that real or even essential to the narrative beyond their roles as characters in the protagonist’s personal drama. Elaine’s father, mother, and even her brother, Stephen, are more like shadows than people. The same goes for her ex-husband, for her first lover, etc. They act and react act; they have lines of dialogue, but there are really only two characters in this book: Elaine herself, and Cordelia.

There are times when the frame story to Elaine’s childhood narrative seems completely unnecessary. It would be impossible to jettison it entirely—after all, that part of the story has some significant discussion of Elaine’s impressions of the fledgling feminist movement, not mention a broader look at authorial intent and artistic interpretation. (I seem to reading rather a lot of books about artists lately.) Nevertheless, the older Elaine is a frustrating protagonist, because she is so very passive. She seems to let everything happen to her. She goes along with her retrospective because she feels it is an honour not likely to be repeated. Although she offers a little resistance to other people’s attempts to fit her into their rigid ideas about middle-age, female artists, I never feel like she actively attempts to define an identity for herself. Maybe that’s why I preferred the childhood sections of the book. There, at least, child-Elaine’s passivity is juxtaposed with the furious ticking clock of her advancing age: as the months fade into years, we can forget that Atwood chooses a very tight focus for her story.

Really, it’s all about her and Cordelia. The more I attempt to parse and encapsulate this book into neat, sentence-length criticisms, the more I realize there is nothing more important than Elaine’s obsession with how their relationship went wrong. She sees Cordelia around every corner, in every face; Cordelia is always present in apostrophe. Losing Cordelia—or perhaps, from Elaine’s perspective, failing her—was an event even more traumatic than the bullying Elaine received from Cordelia when they were children. If their high school friendship was a type of second chance, a way for them to reconnect, then according to Elaine, she let Cordelia down. As a more objective set of eyes, I would say that isn’t the case at all, that Cordelia’s tragic downspin was something Elaine could not have halted by herself. But so it goes: as we grow older, we begin to develop myths about our past, stories based on memories that in turn influence how we think of ourselves. And Elaine, who in the present day seems so isolated and lonely, has put the younger Cordelia on a pedestal, raised her upon a mountain of regret. Oh, the things we would do differently if we could do it over again….

Unlike The Handmaid’s Tale , Cat’s Eye seems a lot more open-ended, less overt in its themes. The two novels are different, then, in how they interact with the reader. Both share that style of Atwood’s that I have decided to tolerate for now. The cover of my edition proclaims Cat’s Eye as a “mesmerizing international bestseller”. I like that choice of word: mesmerizing . There is something tranquil and enchanting about the way Atwood has her narrative unfold, and that, along with how Elaine’s memories influence her sense of self and identity, really kept me interested in the book. This is the perfect sort of book for the dog days of summer, something into which one can immerse oneself and enjoy over the course of a few languid days as the vacation drifts to a close.

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Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood is the story of Elaine, a painter who, on returning to her childhood city of Toronto for her grand retrospective exhibition, finds memories of her past flooding back to her – but happy memories they are not. The novel opens in a really clever and intriguing way – Elaine is looking back on her childhood friendships and the impression we are left with is that something traumatic happened, as Elaine relishes imagining tragic circumstances befalling a certain Cordelia. As Elaine’s past slowly unfolds for us, in particularly detailed and evocative storytelling tracing her unusual, peripatetic childhood and slowly revealing what eventually happened, Atwood conjures a chilling portrait of childhood and adolescence; of girlhood in particular, the treacherous dynamics and little cruelties that characterise some unlucky young friendships, and their repercussions through the years. As the memories come crashing back, Elaine is forced to finally face the tormentor who has been haunting her for 40 odd years. 

Atwood has an absolute knack for getting into her characters’ psyches in simple everyday moments that also capture the expanse of human experience and emotions. Exploring themes of innocence and awakening; of relentless bullying, betrayal, and the amnesia that trauma can induce; of how we can choose to suffer to belong; of how your bully can also be your best friend; and of how the tormentor can become the tormented. Contrasting these traumatic memories as they resurface with their consequences in the actions and relationships of later years, Cat’s Eye is a gut-punch of a novel about how we carry our childhood forward, and perhaps about how it is in our hands to face the more troubling parts of our childhood in our later years, in order to finally move further forward.

Listened to as an audiobook read by Laurel Lefkow. 

Cat’s Eye was published by Doubleday in 1988.

Margaret Atwood  is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include  Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin , and the  MaddAddam  trilogy. Her 1985 classic,  The Handmaid’s Tale , was followed in 2019 by a sequel,  The Testaments,  which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published  Dearly , her first collection of poetry for a decade.   Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye is a sharp study of a very female torture

As we approach the novel’s 30th anniversary, it’s hard to think of many characters who have endured pain like Atwood’s Elaine

One of the first things you notice when embarking on the unsettling experience of reading Cat’s Eye is that its narrator, Elaine, is herself unusually observant. Her memories of her messed-up childhood are more than vivid. On the first page, she remembers her brother studying while standing on his head (he claims that this will make the blood run down into his brain and nourish it), while wearing his “ravelling maroon sweater”. We are introduced to Elaine’s teenage friend Cordelia, who has “grey-green eyes, opaque and glinting as metal”. Cordelia is on a streetcar with Elaine and they wear: “long wool coats, with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. In our pockets are stuffed the kerchiefs our mothers make us wear, but that we take off as soon as we’re out of their sight … Our mouths are tough, crayon red, shiny as nails.”

And on it goes: everything about the way people look and present themselves is precisely rendered and catalogued. The smells Atwood describes are especially evocative: that streetcar “is muggy with twice-breathed air and the smell of wool”; Stephen “smells of peppermint LifeSavers” over his usual scent of “cedarwood pencils and wet sand; the alcohol her entomologist father uses in his work “smells like white enamel basins”. As Elaine even tells us, with typical wryness: “We remember through smells, like dogs do.”

At first, this vivid act of time travel makes for a pleasant adventure, with Cat’s Eye feeling like a portrait of the artist as a young woman. This is a type of novel so well recognised that academics have even borrowed a German word to describe it: Künstlerroman.

While we’re among the academics, I might even invoke Roland Barthes, who once suggested that “the sense of the object always trembles – not that of the concept”. Which is roughly to say, physical descriptions can resonate with us more clearly than ideas. It was eating a madeleine that brought on Proust’s emotional flood of memories, not just missing his grandma. And in Cat’s Eye, it’s very often the physical world that helps us see how Elaine is feeling.

Most notably, when she is nine, she bites her lips, chews her hair and peels the skin off her feet, going “down as far as the blood”. For her, the pain “gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.”

The pain in Cat’s Eye sets it apart from any standard notions we might have of what should happen in a Künstlerroman, for Elaine has endured torture that feels unusual in literature even as we approach the novel’s 30th anniversary. She has been bullied by female friends – and moreover, bullied in a manner precision-engineered just for her.

As Elaine carefully observes the world, her tormentors are observing Elaine. When we first meet the teenage Cordelia on those opening pages, we are told she has an acute sense for detail. (“Cordelia can tell cheap cloth at a glance. ‘Gabardine,’ she says. ‘Ticky-tack.’”) But it’s when we see her as the 10-year-old chief instigator of Elaine’s suffering that her powers really come to the fore. She constantly monitors Elaine, demanding to know what she has in her pockets, enlisting accomplices to report back on her behaviour, deportment, conversation – in all of which she finds fault. Worse still, Cordelia makes Elaine scrutinise herself: “Cordelia brings a mirror to school … She takes it out of her pocket and holds the mirror up in front of me and says ‘Look at yourself! Just look!’ Her voice is disgusted.”

Though this cruelty feels very specific to Elaine, there’s also something universal about it. Elaine realises that women are always judged and “there is no end to imperfection”. The details that have been building up over the course of the book start to feel ever more oppressive. As critic Molly Hite once noted : “They reinforce the imputation that growing up female, even growing up as a white, middle-class female in a prosperous North American country, is different only in degree from living in a police state.”

Pain can be found everywhere and in everything. “The toaster is on a silver heat pad,” Elaine tells us. “It has two doors, with a knob at the bottom of each, and a grid up the centre that glows red-hot. When the toast is done on one side I turn the knobs and the doors open and the toast slides down and turns over, all by itself. I think about putting my finger in there, onto the red-hot grid.”

If you think that sounds nasty, read what happens when she encounters a wringer. When you are always being watched, your own powers of observation can extract a terrible price.

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Anyone familiar with upstate New York knows its formidable ice-greased winters, where the backs of your thighs sear and chap, and your teeth clatter like rickety marionettes. But the first time I saw my soon-to-be best friend, she wore only a flimsy poncho, short skirt, no pantyhose and, most amazingly, open-toed shoes.

Both in our early 20s, enrolled at the same university as grad students, we spent years synchronizing our tastes. She tattooed her arm in the exact same spot as mine. I began to sport cleavage just like her. She dyed her hair dark; I highlighted mine. But what began in enchantment eventually ended in disillusionment. She'd inform me of people who didn't "like" me and spared me none of the snarky put-downs supposedly said behind my back by a mutual friend. I'll never know if those comments were true — only that they wounded me.

In the wake of this friendship's demise, another friend recommended Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye. "Very few books explore female friendship at this level of intensity," she said. "It will help you."

I devoured it within two sleepless nights. Then I read it again, slowly, this time to savor it.

And there is so much to savor in Cat's Eye's lushly imagined landscape where sorrow and beauty merge. This novel is as philosophical as it is emotional, as poetic as it is psychological. It's the story of Elaine and her best friend Cordelia, a histrionic, well-to-do girl who puts a defiant blond streak in her hair and refers to her mother as "Mummy." Although she's only 9, Cordelia plays vicious emotional mind games and conducts rituals that resemble hazing — like telling Elaine to stand out in the freezing cold for hours. Like a surgeon going straight for the valves instead of the heartstrings, Atwood expertly conjures how doubly disorienting and painful it is when the proverbial mean girl also happens to be your best friend:

"With enemies, you can feel hatred, and anger. But Cordelia is my friend. She likes me, she wants to help me. ... With hatred I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love."

Margaux Fragoso's recently published memoir Tiger, Tiger , is an account of an abused child's relationship with a 51-year-old pedophile. Sara Essex/Macmillan Publishers hide caption

Reading Cat's Eye reminded me of Philip Wingate's classic poem "Two Little Maids," for each of us, at one time or another, "in sweet dreams of childhood, we hear the cry: You can't play in our yard" and feel the pain of those ancient exiles.

One of Cat's Eye's most superbly crafted twists is that Cordelia and Elaine eventually swap roles, with Elaine becoming the dominant friend and the once omnipresent-seeming Cordelia the girl you can't help but pity. Elaine gets even by subtly teasing Cordelia throughout their teens and then finally abandoning the now viscerally unstable young woman when she most needs a friend. But Elaine's revenge fails to liberate her from her overwhelming sense of trauma and alienation.

By the book's end, Elaine mourns "not something that's gone, but something that will never happen." She wishes she and Cordelia could have had a healthy, lifelong bond like a pair of elderly girlfriends she spots on a plane: "two old women giggling over tea."

Cat's Eye helped me move on from a friendship that had become toxic while, more importantly, assuring me that, like Elaine, I had every right to wish it could've turned out differently.

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. ‘Her sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019. It was an instant international bestseller and won the Booker Prize.’

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

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