Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood

Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood

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Summary

ORYX AND CRAKE is about the future. Not unlike Margaret Atwood's deeply dystopian classic of 1985, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, but in ORYX AND CRAKE the future differs in two important ways:It's much worse. And it's much closer.

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Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood

Our narrator SNOWMAN is self-named, though not self-created. He's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved ORYX and his best friend CRAKE, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, SNOWMAN'S life had been one of privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he now left alone with his bizarre memories - alone except for the more-than-perfect green-eyed CHILDREN OF CRAKE, who think of him as a monster? He looks for answers by taking a double journey, back into his own past, and to CRAKE'S high-tech bubble dome, where the PARADISE PROJECT unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her material, ATWOOD again projects us into a less-than-brave new world. This is an outlandish yet wholly believable space, devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by a cast of characters who will long inhabit your dreams.
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ISBN 13 9781844080564
ISBN 10 1844080560
Title Oryx And Crake
Author Margaret Atwood
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2004-03-25
Number of pages 448
Prizes Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005, Long-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2004
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.