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Author:	Margaret Atwood	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Bantam Dell Pub Group	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0385503857	ISBN-13:	9780385503853
Subject:	Science Fiction	Publication Year:	2003
Topic:	--	Special Attributes:	1st Edition
Language:	English	Condition:	Very Good

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Synopsis
In Margaret Atwood's 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID'S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he encounters on a website featuring child pornography, and Crake is a brilliantly gifted childhood friend who grows up to be a scientist involved in creating artificial life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Series:	Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

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Length:	376 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	24.8 oz.

Publisher's Note
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.
Industry reviews
"A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, BRAVE NEW WORLD, and...WE. Atwood has surpassed herself." Kirkus Reviews (03/15/2003) "What Atwood's inventive treatment of first and last things lacks is a plausible psychological basis....We can take in only so many confected scenarios of future life before we crave a complexity of character commensurate with the intelligence of the plot or the confident excellence of the writing. Alas, it is not to be. The characters' background stories feel somewhat arbitrarily assigned, and their actions are conditioned at every turn by the logic of the premise....But...a novel like ORYX AND CRAKE can address the present-day world in a way that crates a powerful para-literary experience. What tones we lose through the lack of true complexity of character are to some degree compensated for by the peculiar triangulation that obtains among reader, novel and world." New York Times Book Review - Sven Birkerts (05/18/2003) "The truly frightening thing about Atwood's dystopia is that so little of it is far-fetched....[H]er greater message, like that of Swift's Yahoos, is beyond hope: mankind has hit its evolutionary ceiling." Times Literary Supplement - Ronald Wright (05/16/2003) "ORYX AND CRAKE is a roller-coaster ride. The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself, like someone, exhausted by bad news, hysterically succumbing to giggles at a funeral." (05/19/2007)

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. 1st 1st HB. Book has a remainder dot on the top and is in VG or Better Condition.

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