Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books
Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetryHer gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own Lisa Appignanesi, The Independent Magazine Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader Saturday Telegraph Observer 'enlivening, deadpan wit and the mix of empathy and insight she always brings to her characters... Saturated in science, the novel is simulatneously alive with literary resonances... This superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined book joins The
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and now Oryx and Crake for the 2003 Booker prize. She has won many literary prizes in other countries.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844080281 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844080285 |
| Title | Oryx And Crake |
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2009-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005 |
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