Cat's Eye.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 6, 1989 | Copyright information

CAT'S EYE

The past of Margaret Atwood's CAT'S EYE is also a careful reconstruction from fragments. Her heroine, a middle-aged painter, returns to Toronto for a retrospective exhibition of her work. Alone in a former husband's flat, she remembers her early life in the city before she left for Vancouver. A young journalist asks her how different her generation is from...

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