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The
2005 Award
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Oryx
and Crake
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story
opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bed sheet, 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 that will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books - novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye - both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson. |
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