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Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Shortlisted for The Orange & Booker prizes.
First in a series of 3 novels.
Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. She has described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance, rather than pure science fiction, because it does not deal with things "we can't yet do or begin to do", yet goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the novel form.
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.
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- Format : Standard, Slightly Thicker 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good (Almost Very Good)
- Category : Fiction - Science Fiction
- Published : 2003 (This Edition 2004 - Virago Press)
- ISBN : 9780349004068
- SKU : B000014
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'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' - The Independent.
'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - The London Review of Books.
'The writing is spare. The structure is tight. The observation of the human condition is both profound and impish. Character is crucial. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them. Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I have never encountered elsewhere. It was nominated for the Man Booker. I think it should have won.' - Anita Mason, The Guardian.
'Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry. Her 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.
'Enlivening, deadpan wit and the mix of empathy and insight she always brings to her characters . . . Saturated in science, the novel is simultaneously alive with literary resonances . . . superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined.' - Observer.
The Author
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt CH FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.
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