Word: atwoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irving, 47, met his second wife, literary agent Janet Turnbull. Irving and Turnbull were married in 1987, and maintain an apartment in Toronto's Forest Hill section. The author spends about a week each month north of the border, where there is no lack of literary companionship. Novelists Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont but in eastern Long Island. The wood-frame structure had been dismantled, transported to Long Island and restored among the summer retreats of the Northeast's most glamorous resort...
...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter returns to show her work in Toronto, where she grew up, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter is lured back to Toronto, where she grew up, by a retrospective showing of her works, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
...brother exchange a "rootless life of impermanence and safety" for the urban wilderness of conformity and cliques. The boy, a prodigy, retreats into a private world of abstruse science and physics. Elaine seeks acceptance by her peers, a gaggle of victimizing girls led by a meanspirited brat named Cordelia. Atwood understands that no subsequent humiliations can ever cut so deep as those of youth. The cruelties done to the narrator become sources of a melancholia that affects the rest of her days...
...Atwood is 49, her father was an entomologist, and she spent her early years in the Canadian woods before moving to Toronto. It would be easy to view this novel as one more thinly fictionalized autobiography. But Cat's Eye is no mere tracing of events. It is concerned, not to say obsessed, with the occurate representation of youthful feelings...