Oryx and Crake
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0771008686
ISBN 13
9780771008689
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
2021
Publisher
Pages
392
Subject
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction. Genetic engineering -- Fiction. New York (State) -- Fiction.
Tags
Abstract
A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
Description
Publisher Comments
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.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
She is the author of more than thirty books – novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.
Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye – both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake (2003). She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
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.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
She is the author of more than thirty books – novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.
Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye – both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake (2003). She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Science fiction
Romance fiction
Dystopias
Fiction
Ciencia ficción
Historias de amor
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0385503857 9780385503853 9780385721677 0385721676 9780385505857 038550585X
OCLC Number: 50774561
Description: 376 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Mango --
Flotsam --
Voice --
2. Bonfire --
OrganInc Farms --
Lunch --
3. Nooners --
Downpour --
4. Rakunk --
Hammer --
Crake --
Brainfrizz --
HottTotts --
5. Toast --
Fish --
Bottle --
6. Oryx --
Birdcall --
Roses --
Pixieland jazz --
7. Sveltana --
Purring --
Blue --
8. So yummie --
Happicuppa --
Applied rhetoric --
Asperger's U. --
Wolvogs --
Hypothetical --
Extinctathon --
9. Hike --
RejoovenEsense --
Twister --
10. Vulturizing --
AnooYoo --
Garage --
Gripless --
11. Pigoons --
Radio --
Rampart --
12. Pleebcrawl --
BlyssPluss --
MaddAddam --
Paradice --
Crake in love --
Takeout --
Airlock --
13. Bubble --
Scribble --
Remnant --
14. Idol --
Sermon --
15. Footprint.
Responsibility: Margaret Atwood.
Romance fiction
Dystopias
Fiction
Ciencia ficción
Historias de amor
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0385503857 9780385503853 9780385721677 0385721676 9780385505857 038550585X
OCLC Number: 50774561
Description: 376 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Mango --
Flotsam --
Voice --
2. Bonfire --
OrganInc Farms --
Lunch --
3. Nooners --
Downpour --
4. Rakunk --
Hammer --
Crake --
Brainfrizz --
HottTotts --
5. Toast --
Fish --
Bottle --
6. Oryx --
Birdcall --
Roses --
Pixieland jazz --
7. Sveltana --
Purring --
Blue --
8. So yummie --
Happicuppa --
Applied rhetoric --
Asperger's U. --
Wolvogs --
Hypothetical --
Extinctathon --
9. Hike --
RejoovenEsense --
Twister --
10. Vulturizing --
AnooYoo --
Garage --
Gripless --
11. Pigoons --
Radio --
Rampart --
12. Pleebcrawl --
BlyssPluss --
MaddAddam --
Paradice --
Crake in love --
Takeout --
Airlock --
13. Bubble --
Scribble --
Remnant --
14. Idol --
Sermon --
15. Footprint.
Responsibility: Margaret Atwood.
Number of Copies
1
