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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood
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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood
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FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“Towering and intrepid. . . . Atwood does Orwell one better.” —The New Yorker

“Atwood at her playful, allegorical best.” —The Globe and Mail

“Majestic. . . . Keeps us on the edges of our seats.” —The Washington Post

“A powerful vision.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. . . . Atwood entices.” —USA Today

“Atwood’s great talent for narrative has never been displayed to better effect.” —Toronto Star

“A crackling read. . . . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time.” —The Guardian

“Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . . . [Atwood’s] wry wit makes dystopia fun.” —PEOPLE

“Perfectly constructed, funny, and satiric. It is inventive yet prophetic, in fact, apocalyptic and weirdly feasible. . . . It is brilliant.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“[An] evocative tale of a nightmarish near-future—[Oryx and Crake] is an extraordinary work of art, one that reaffirms Atwood’s place at the apex of Canadian literature.” —Maclean’s

“This superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined book joins The Handmaid’s Tale in the distinguished company of novels (The Time Machine, Brave New World and 1984) that look ahead to warn us about the results of human shortsightedness.” —The Times

“Brilliantly constructed. . . . Jimmy and Crake grip like characters out of Greek tragedy. . . . Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader.” —The Daily Telegraph

“Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet. . . . Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.” —The Baltimore Sun

“Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best—dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own. Citizens, be warned.” —The Independent

“Wonderfully vivid, and the sardonic unveiling of future history makes for a strong narrative drive.” —National Post

Overall rating: 4.3508773 / 5 from 114 reviews.

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  • "Margaret Atwood is a talented author with a gift for satire and intriguing stories that mirror our world creepily well." — Amanda
  • "Margaret Atwood never disappoints and Oryx and Crake is no exception." — AmyR
  • "Great story, characters, and ideas - another hit from Atwood" — Frank

Reviews

For dystopian lovers

"Dystopian at its best - Atwood always hooks you in and shows you the seedy under belly of what the world could be (and actually maybe is)"

— Fergustj (4/5)

Oryx and Crake? Who are they? and why to we need to know about them? You live will depend upon it.

"The start of a journey into our potential future. All of technologies today will alter our collective future, will we be able to survive? You will have to read the rest of this series to see if Margaret Atwood's assessment is correct."

— Marcus (5/5)

I remember seeing it on my University reading list and had no idea what to expect. Glad to have actually grabbed it back then and even happier to have it again.

"I've loved this book since I first read it over a decade ago. It's gripping, it's pertinent, it's frightening how this can truly happen. I think about it anytime strange advances in medicine happen."

— T. M. (5/5)

Excellent read

"Margaret Atwood is a master storyteller. After enjoying ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’, I wanted to read more of her work. She creates a world that is enough like our own so that we feel rooted in the story, but different in some terrifying ways. You are pulled along through the story through each discovery."

— Lou M. (5/5)

Oryx and crake is the best

"My favourite book of all time. I love going back every year to read it. It’s Atwood at her best."

— Charles U. (5/5)

Amazing

"Margaret Atwood can do no wrong and really does an excellent job with sci-fi in this book"

— Cmehaf (5/5)

Strong writing that bridges time

"Great introduction to this apocalyptic trilogy with a unique twist on genetic evolution"

— Susan (5/5)

It’s usual Margaret Atwood it’s a story of daring and adventure

"It was kinda slow in the beginning but it got much better keep up with it"

— F. s. (5/5)

If you liked A Handmaid's Tale, give this a read.

"I read this book back in university over ten years ago. I recently bought it so that I can read it again. This book highlights what an excellent dystopian writer Margaret Atwood really is."

— Jess (5/5)

Classic Atwood

"Classic Atwood - a book that makes you question the future, the present, and the past."

— APistore (5/5)

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  • Published date: Jul 28, 2009
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 400
  • Publisher: Knopf Canada
  • ISBN: 9780307398482
  • Dimensions: 5.2" W x 0.89" L x 7.96" H
MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include The Testaments, which was the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize; Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She lives in Toronto.

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