From Powells.com
Margaret Atwood's eleventh novel, Oryx and Crake, is one of her most remarkable. Set in a not-too-distant future, many of the experiments with genetics and biotechnology that Atwood describes (think "pigoons," pig-like creatures designed to grow human organs without the expense of an entire clone) have already begun. Oryx and Crake explores human beings at their most frightening and hopeful, and takes a necessary look at the intersection of power, apathy, and desire. This is Atwood at her marvelous, provocative best. Jill, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Review
"[R]iveting, disturbing....Chesterton once wrote of the 'thousand romances that lie secreted in The Origin of Species.' Atwood has extracted one of the most hair-raising of them, and one of the most brilliant." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Set in a future some two generations hence, Oryx and Crake can hold its own against any of the 20th century's most potent dystopias — Brave New World, 1984, The Space Merchants — with regard to both dramatic impact and fertility of invention, while it leaves such lesser recent contenders as Paul Theroux and Doris Lessing in the dust." Washington Post
About the Author
Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaids Tale, her novels include Cats Eye — shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; and her most recent, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Oryx and Crake is her eleventh novel.