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Oryx And Crake - Atwood, Margaret

Oryx and Crake

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Margaret Atwood's classic novel, The Handmaid's Tale, is about the future. Now, in Oryx and Crake, the future has changed. It's much worse and bleaker. And we're well on the road to it now. The narrator is Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy), self-named though not self-created. As the story begins, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, Snowman's life was one of comparative privilege. Crake ...

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Oryx And Crake
2013, Virago Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780349004068

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Oryx and Crake
2009, Vintage Books Canada

ISBN-13: 9780307398482

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Oryx and Crake
2009, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9781408802779

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Oryx and Crake
2005, McClelland & Stewart

ISBN-13: 9780771008696

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Oryx and Crake
2004, Anchor Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780385721677

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Oryx and Crake
2004, Seal Books, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780770429355

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Oryx And Crake
2004, Virago Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9781844080281

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Oryx And Crake
2004, Virago Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9781844080564

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Oryx and Crake
2003, Nan A. Talese, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780385503853

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Oryx and Crake
2003, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780771008689

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Oryx and Crake
2003, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9780747562597

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Oryx and Crake
2003, Random House Large Print Publishing, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780375432125

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2003, Random House Audio Publishing Group, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780739307441

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2003, Books on Tape

ISBN-13: 9780736693882

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Oryx and Crake
2003, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9780747566946

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Oryx And Crake

2013, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780349004068

Oryx and Crake

2009, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780307398482

Oryx and Crake

2009, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9781408802779

Oryx and Crake

2005, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780771008696

Oryx and Crake

2004, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780385721677

Oryx and Crake

2004, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780770429355

Oryx And Crake

2004, Paperback

ISBN-13:

9781844080281

Oryx And Crake

2004, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9781844080564

Oryx and Crake

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780385503853

Oryx and Crake

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780771008689

Oryx and Crake

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780747562597

Oryx and Crake

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780375432125

Oryx and Crake

2003, Audiobook CD

ISBN-13:

9780739307441

Oryx and Crake

2003, Audiobook CD

ISBN-13:

9780736693882

Oryx and Crake

2003, Audiobook CD

ISBN-13:

9780747566946

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laurie n

Feb 27, 2014

awesome

shipped quickly and was in fantastic shape!!! Love this seller!

ninthchord

Oct 8, 2010

Thoroughly inundated with intertextuality: the Bible, Huxley, Orwell, etc. Similar to Huxley with the theme of a dystopian future and genetic engineering gone awry, or at least taken to its most extreme. I was surprised with many of Atwood's ideas and found them quite creative. I appreciate that she uses certain words in order to preserve them or save them from obscurity (brainfart, for example), but it would have been better to use them in context instead of listing them in Snowman's thoughts.

Also, the theme of genetic engineering taken to the extreme has been done before: Huxley's "Brave New World" and Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar," for examples. The problem is that, even though Atwood attempts to update this trope by including technology since those books appeared (the Internet, chat rooms, etc.), she offers nothing new to the story and Brunner and Orwell told the story better.

lovelywilde

Aug 5, 2009

beautiful

Oryx and Crake is at once beautiful and unsettling, thoughtful and terrifying, imaginative and down-to-earth.

wordnerd

Nov 6, 2008

It is excellent IF you enjoy reading about possible future scenarios here on eart. A future that does not have aliens, but just of science gone out-of-control.
One that makes you think about the way we are headed.

conso

Sep 28, 2008

A book worth reading!

This is the first book I read from Margaret Atwood. I found it very interesting and scarily realistic. We are living days of profound changes all around the world, both socially and environmentally oriented, and the author gives us a glimpse of a situation that could possibly become true in the future. The story is easy to read and follow, and it captures the reader's attention from the very first chapter. I will definitely purchase another book by this author.

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