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  • Sono parziale, poichè amo moltissimo Margaret Atwood, la sua scrittura fluida e precisa, i suoi indimenticabili personaggi femminili (pure, anche lei ha scritto qualche libro piuttosto brutto). In questo libro viene descritto meravigliosamente quel particolare tipo di rapporto di amore e odio così c ... Continue

    Sono parziale, poichè amo moltissimo Margaret Atwood, la sua scrittura fluida e precisa, i suoi indimenticabili personaggi femminili (pure, anche lei ha scritto qualche libro piuttosto brutto). In questo libro viene descritto meravigliosamente quel particolare tipo di rapporto di amore e odio così comune fra le ragazzine. Una storia crudele e toccante come l'adolescenza.

    

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  • Cat's Eye is Margaret Atwood's first novel since her international award-winning best-seller The Handmaid's Tale, in which she created a futuristic totalitarian society. In Cat's Eye, Atwood moves away from this overtly political territory to an landscape which is more personal but no less disturbin ... Continue

    Cat's Eye is Margaret Atwood's first novel since her international award-winning best-seller The Handmaid's Tale, in which she created a futuristic totalitarian society. In Cat's Eye, Atwood moves away from this overtly political territory to an landscape which is more personal but no less disturbing.
    Painter Elaine Risley, pushing fifty, returns from Vancouver to Toronto for a retrospective of her work, which has been much celebrated by the women's movement and much attacked from other quarters.
    Toronto is the city she fled many years earlier, hoping to leave behind the tyrannical and obsessive memories of her early life there - from her post-World War II school days and fifties adolescence, through the avant-garde art scene of the sixties, to the advent of feminism in the early seventies.
    Now, as she wanders the streets of the city, which are no longer puritanical and dowdy but resplendent with eighties glitz, Elaine confronts the submerged layers of her past - her unconventional family, her eccentric and brilliant brother, the self-righteous and dangerous Mrs. Smeath, and the two men Elaine later came to love and 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 it secrecies, cruelties, betrayals, and terrors, has never been so luminously evoked. Through the quirky, idiosyncratic voice of Elaine Risley, Atwood has given fascinating dimensions to the ambiguous roots of women's relationships, both with one another and with the world.

    

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  • Per chi ha conosciuto la crudeltà delle bambine

    

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  • I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories - I'm mostly bored with the former but quite entertained by the latter.

    I guess I must've bought Cat's Eye because it's on some women's writings reading list. I like the subject it deals with. ... Continue

    I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories - I'm mostly bored with the former but quite entertained by the latter.

    I guess I must've bought Cat's Eye because it's on some women's writings reading list. I like the subject it deals with. In fact, I wish more people would write about growing up as girls. But it's far too slow for my current state of mind. I just don't have the patience to sit through 70 pages before Cordelia actually appears

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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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