Oryx And Crake (The Maddaddam Trilogy, #1)

by Margaret Atwood

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By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACE

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Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

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Praise for Oryx and Crake:

'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' -INDEPENDENT

'Gripping and remarkably imagined' -LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

  • ISBN10 0349004064
  • ISBN13 9780349004068
  • Publish Date 29 August 2013 (first published 22 April 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 March 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Virago Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 448
  • Language English