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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood’s new novel Oryx and Crake 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.
With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into a conceivable future of our own world, an outlandish yet wholly believable place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the book is closed.
This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again.
BloomsburyMagazine on Oryx and Crake -
Oryx and Crake is about the future.
In some ways, it is 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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Fiction by Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman Surfacing Lady Oracle Dancing Girls Life Before Man Bodily Harm Murder in the Dark Bluebeard's Egg The Handmaid's Tale Cat's Eye Wilderness Tips Good Bones The Robber Bride Alias Grace The Blind Assassin Oryx and Crake
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).
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