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Oryx and Crake
Contributor(s): Atwood, Margaret (Author)

ISBN: 0385721676 ISBN-13: 9780385721677
Publisher: Vintage

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2004
Annotation: With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity--and its present.
Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn why we also learn about a world that could become ours one day.

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-apocalyptic
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Dystopian

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2002073290

Series: Maddaddam Trilogy

Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.64 lbs) 400 pages

Features: Price on Product

Review Citations: BookPage 05/01/2004 pg. 18
New York Times 05/30/2004 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 12/16/2007 pg. 16
Newsweek 08/09/2010 pg. 54

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 76412
Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0

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Publisher Description:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

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