Can I read Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor) on EtoBox?

Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor) by Atwood, Margaret Eleanor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor) about?

Amazon.com ReviewIn Oryx and Crake, a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by b

Who reads Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor)?

Author

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Publisher

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385503853

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

4 / 5 (2,426 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13