# Oryx and Crake

**BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF _THE HANDMAID'S TALE_**  
**FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**  
**THE FIRST VOLUME IN ATWOOD'S DARKLY WITTY _MADDADDAM_ TRILOGY**  
  
**'Shocking and darkly humorous** . . . **A book to galvanise'** _DAILY TELEGRAPH_  
  
**'Towering and intrepid** . . . **Atwood does Orwell one better'** _NEW YORKER_  
  
**'Both profound and impish** . . . **Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time'** _GUARDIAN_  
  
**'_Oryx and Crake_ is Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry****'** _INDEPEDENT_  
  
Jimmy is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human. He lives in a tree, dresses himself in old bedsheets, and now calls himself Snowman. He mourns the loss of his best friend, Crake. And the voice of Oryx, the woman they both loved, teasingly haunts him.  
  
Before, Snowman had led a privileged life. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way at fault? Why has he now been left alone with his bizarre memories? And why are the green-eyed, more-than-perfect Children of Crake seemingly his responsibility?  
  
Searching for answers, Snowman embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride - a near future that is outlandish yet all too familiar.  
  
**'Gripping and remarkably imagined** . . . **it joins _The Handmaid's Tale_ in the distinguished company of novels \[like\] _The Time Machine, Brave New World_ and** **_1984_'** _THE TIMES_  
  
**'A powerful vision'** _NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW_  
  
**'Atwood's dry wit makes dystopia fun'** _PEOPLE_  
  
**'Gripping and remarkably imagined'** _LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS_  
  
**'A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter'** _THE ECONOMIST_

## Details

- **Price:** 0.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** Virago
- **Type:** Margaret Atwood

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