"Cat's Eye" (book review)

by Margaret Atwood, 1988.

The life story of a painter.
With fascinating flashbacks, the usual combination of mundane, humorous, horrific, bizarre.
This is a big book!
Long, detailed, captivating.
One of the special attractions is that Atwood's descriptions of the paintings are so vivid you end up thinking they must exist physically somewhere.
Another treat is that MA gets under the skin of all the characters who inhabit the story...nothing 2-dimensional about any of it.
Entomologists, artists, single women, opportunistic men, phantoms hanging by the bridge, dismal cities, refugees...many classic Atwood characters and themes.
And yet something novel is spun out of the ingredients.
A must read!