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Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor) - Hardcover - VERY GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780385503853
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Oryx and Crake
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood's new novel 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. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake , nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. From the Hardcover edition.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385503857
ISBN-13
9780385503853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2405447
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oryx and Crake
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in.
Item Height
1.3in.
Item Width
6.6in.
Item Weight
24.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
BK. 1
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.3.A8o79 2003
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Praise for The Blind Assassin: "The first great novel of the new millennium." -Newsday "Absorbing . . . expertly rendered . . . Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display." -New York Times "Brilliant . . . Opulent . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." -John Updike, The New Yorker "Chilling . . . Lyrical . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." -Boston Globe "Hauntingly powerful . . . A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." -The Atlanta Journal Constitution "Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable." -Washington Post Book World "Bewitching . . . A killer novel . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton . . . A wonderfully complex narrative." -Christian Science Monitor, Praise for The Blind Assassin: "The first great novel of the new millennium." Newsday "Absorbing . . . expertly rendered . . . Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display." New York Times "Brilliant . . . Opulent . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." John Updike, The New Yorker "Chilling . . . Lyrical . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." Boston Globe "Hauntingly powerful . . . A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." The Atlanta Journal Constitution "Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable." Washington Post Book World "Bewitching . . . A killer novel . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton . . . A wonderfully complex narrative." Christian Science Monitor, Praise forThe Blind Assassin"The first great novel of the new millennium."-Newsday"Absorbing . . . expertly rendered . . . Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display."-New York Times"Brilliant . . . Opulent . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous."-John Updike,The New Yorker"Chilling . . . Lyrical . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date."-Boston Globe"Hauntingly powerful . . . A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade."-The Atlanta Journal--Constitution"Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable."-Washington Post Book World"Bewitching . . . A killer novel . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton . . . A wonderfully complex narrative."-Christian Science Monitor
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
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2002-073290
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Series
The Maddaddam Trilogy
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Pages
400 Pages
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