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Margaret Atwood projects us into a less-than-brave new world, an outlandish yet wholly believable space populated by a cast of memorable characters.The narrator is Snowman. As the story begins, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx & best friend Crake, & slowly starving to death. Earlier, his life was one of comparative privilege, living with all the other smart, rich people in the gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside in the chaotic 'pleeblands'.) How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? "Environmental unconcern, genetic engineering, & bioterrorism have created the hollowed-out, haunted future world of Atwood’s ingenious & disturbing 11th novel... A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, & Russian revolutionary Zamyatin’s We. Atwood has surpassed herself." — Kirkus ReviewsMargaret Atwood is the world-renowned author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry & critical essays. The multi-award-winning author has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright & puppeteer. Her nov
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- Author
- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400078981
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (2,426 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14