Cat's Eye

London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. 1st UK Edn. Hardcover. 0747503044 . Dark blue cloth bound boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and with bright gilt decorations to the front board. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There are indents running down both the dustjacket and cloth spine. There is also edge-wear and creasing to the dustjacket extremities. The dustjacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Fine. There are NO inscriptions or other marks. 421 pp. A Note on The Author. Overall, apart from the minor 'faults', as detailed above, this is a Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Very Good Plus' copy. "Margaret Atwood charts the psychological process of memory as compulsion and memory as a healing act through the character of Elaine Risley, an artist who returns to her home town of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. Elaine's visit triggers thoughts of her childhood with all the urgency of a bad rash. Dominating her reflections are her childhood "friends", three girls who wreak havoc on Elaine's self-esteem. Having spent her early childhood on the road with an entomologist father, a less than traditional mother and a brother more concerned with snot and snakes than the intricate behaviour codes of girls, the young Elaine is vulnerable to the indirect aggression of Cordelia, the ringleader of the group who seeks to improve her. Through Elaine's experiences, Margaret Atwood turns a keen and ironic eye on the training of females in North American culture." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .