| Oryx and Crake Contributor(s): Atwood, Margaret (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385721676 ISBN-13: 9780385721677 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats 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. |
| 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" (0.64 lbs) 400 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 76412 Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |