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MARGARET ATWOOD - GEBRAUCHT ORYX AND CRAKE - PR...

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE   FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE   THE FIRST
VOLUME IN ATWOOD'S DARKLY WITTY MADDADDAM TRILOGY    'Shocking and darkly humorous . . . A book
to galvanise' DAILY TELEGRAPH    'Towering and intrepid . . . Atwood does Orwell one better'
NEW YORKER    'Both profound and impish . . . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious
writers of our time' GUARDIAN    ' Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best - dark  dry  scabrously
witty  yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry ' INDEPEDENT   Jimmy is struggling to
survive in a world where he may be the last human. He lives in a tree  dresses himself in old
bedsheets  and now calls himself Snowman. He mourns the loss of his best friend  Crake. And the
voice of Oryx  the woman they both loved  teasingly haunts him.  Before  Snowman had led a
privileged life. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way at fault?
Why has he now been left alone with his bizarre memories? And why are the green-eyed 
more-than-perfect Children of Crake seemingly his responsibility?  Searching for answers 
Snowman embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city 
until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride - a near
future that is outlandish yet all too familiar.   'Gripping and remarkably imagined . . . it
joins The Handmaid's Tale in the distinguished company of novels [like] The Time Machine  Brave
New World and 1984 ' THE TIMES    'A powerful vision' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW    'Atwood's
dry wit makes dystopia fun' PEOPLE    'Gripping and remarkably imagined' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
'A roll of dry  black  parodic laughter' THE ECONOMIST

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