Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $6.81

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $4.66

  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. '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' - Independent 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books