CAT’S EYE

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1988, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-7710-0817-1.  Hard cover, 421 pages.  Very good; blue boards with silver lettering on spine; binding sound with headbands; light corner and spine end wear.  Dust jacket with price intact has light edge and cover wear, faint creases and impressions.  Book interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanning pages.  ‘Painter Elaine Risley, pushing fifty, returns from Vancouver to Toronto for a retrospective of her work … Toronto is the city she fled many years earlier, hoping to leave behind the tyrannical and obsessive memories of her early life there … 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 in 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.’ (from front flap)