Kate’s 2¢: “Cat’s Eyes” by Margaret Atwood

“Cat’s Eyes” by Margaret Atwood

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Apparently, my memory isn’t as good as Elaine’s. I’ve gone back to places my family lived and not recalled in such detail, any memories of living there. Perhaps, my childhood wasn’t a full of trauma as Elaine’s.

   I love the creative narrative of this story; taking us from one stage in Elaine’s life, then, back and forth until the finale.

   Pam Ward did a wonderful job of reading this story to us.

From the WEB:

   Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.

   Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her MaddAddam trilogy the Giller and Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) is currently being adapted for HBO. The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and th…

From LNS/BARD/LOC:

Cat’s eye DB29001

Atwood, Margaret. Reading time: 13 hours, 36 minutes.

Read by Pam Ward. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

General

Psychological Fiction

When Elaine Risley returns to Toronto for a retrospective of her slightly surreal paintings, she must face many of the childhood memories she had tried to push aside when she fled the city years earlier. As Elaine reflects on her childhood and remembers her “best friend,” Cordelia, she reveals much of the torment that children can inflict on one another. Book club main selection.

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