Critical Praise
      
  "Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking."  
   ——The New York Times Book Review
      
  "The best book in a long time on female friendships... Cat's Eye is remarkable, funny, and serious, brimming with uncanny wisdom."  
   ——Cosmopolitan
      
  "A brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic...the story of Elaine's childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer."  
   ——Boston Sunday Globe
      
  "Stunning...Atwood conceives Elaine with a poet's transforming fire; and delivers her to us that way, a flame inside an icicle."  
   ——Los Angeles Times

  
    
