A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker PrizeMargaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again.The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.

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Oryx and Crake: A Novel (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor)

Oryx and Crake. MaddAddam (1)

Oryx and Crake : a Novel. 01

The Maddaddam trilogy

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC

Random House, Incorporated

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Penguin Random House

McCelland & Stewart

Delacorte Press

Virago

MaddAddam trilogy, bk. 1, 1st ed. in the U.S, New York, 2003

1st Anchor Books ed., New York, New York State, 2004

1st ed. in the U.S., New York, New York State, 2003

First Anchor Books Edition (14), New York, 2009?

United States, United States of America

Penguin Random House LLC, [S.l.], 2004

New York, NY, United States, 2003

First American Edition, 2003

Toronto, Ontario, 2003

New York, 2014

Reprint, 2019

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Booker Prize Finalist.

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topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Genetic engineering; Male friendship

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) 1
1.1. (p2) Mango
1.2. (p3) Flotsam
1.3. (p4) Voice
2. (p5) 2
2.1. (p6) Bonfire
2.2. (p7) Organlnc Farms
2.3. (p8) Lunch
3. (p9) 3
3.1. (p10) Nooners
3.2. (p11) Downpour
4. (p12) 4
4.1. (p13) Rakunk
4.2. (p14) Hammer
4.3. (p15) Crake
4.4. (p16) Brainfrizz
4.5. (p17) HottTotts
5. (p18) 5
5.1. (p19) Toast
5.2. (p20) Fish
5.3. (p21) Bottle
6. (p22) 6
6.1. (p23) Oryx
6.2. (p24) Birdcall
6.3. (p25) Roses
6.4. (p26) Pixieland Jazz
7. (p27) 7
7.1. (p28) Sveltana
7.2. (p29) Purring
7.3. (p30) Blue
8. (p31) 8
8.1. (p32) SoYummie
8.2. (p33) Happicuppa
8.3. (p34) Applied Rhetoric
8.4. (p35) Asperger's U
8.5. (p36) Wolvogs
8.6. (p37) Hypothetical
8.7. (p38) Extinctathon
9. (p39) 9
9.1. (p40) Hike
9.2. (p41) RejoovenEsense
9.3. (p42) Twister
10. (p43) 10
10.1. (p44) Vulturizing
10.2. (p45) AnooYoo
10.3. (p46) Garage
10.4. (p47) Gripless
11. (p48) 11
12. (p52) 12
13. (p60) 13
14. (p64) 14
15. (p67) 15

theme: Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Genetic engineering; Male friendship

Towering and intrepid. . . . Atwood does Orwell one better. The New Yorker
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
Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world . . . summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley. . . . Oryx and Crake [is] in the forefront of visionary fiction. The Seattle Times
A book too marvelous to miss. The San Diego Union-Tribune
Majestic. . . . Keeps us on the edges of our seats. The Washington Post
A compelling futuristic vision. . . . Oryx and Crake carries itself with a refreshing lightness. . . . Its shrewd pacing neatly balances action and exposition. . . . What gives the book a deeper resonance is its humanity. Newsday
[A] stunning new novel possibly her best since The Handmaid s Tale . Time Out New York
A delightful amalgam for the sophisticated reader: her perfectly placed prose, poetic language and tongue-in-cheek tone are ubiquitous throughout, as if an enchanted nanny is telling one a dark bedtime story of alienation and ruin while lovingly stroking one s head. Ms.
Truly remarkable. . . . As fun as it is dark. . . . A feast of realism, science fiction, satire, elegy and then some. . . . Atwood has concocted here an all-too-possible vision. . . . [She is] a master. The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter. . . . One of the year s most surprising novels. The Economist
Sublime. . . . Good, solid, Swiftian science fiction from a . . . literary artist par excellence. The Denver Post
Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . . . [Atwood s] wry wit makes dystopia fun. People
A crackling read. . . . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time. The Guardian
Gorgeously written, full of eyeball-smacking images and riveting social and scientific commentary. . . . A cunning and engrossing book by one of the great masters of the form. The Buffalo News
A powerful vision. . . . Very readable. The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant, impossible to put down. . . . Atwood . . . is at once commanding and enchanting. Piercingly intelligent and piquantly witty, highly imaginative and unfailingly compassionate, she is a spoonful-of-sugar storyteller, concealing the strong and necessary medicine of her stinging social commentary within the balm of dazzlingly complicated and compelling characters and intricate and involving predicaments. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Original and chilling. . . . Powerful, inventive, playful and difficult to resist. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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 does not disappoint. The Dallas Morning News
Gripping. . . . Bursts with invention and mordant wit, none of which slows down its headlong pace. . . . Atwood is in sleek form. . . . [Her] prescience is unsettling. St. Petersburg Times
Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. . . . Atwood entices. USA Today
Compelling. . . . Packed with fascinating ideas. . . . Her most accessible book in years, a gripping, unadorned story. The Onion
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 (London)
Absorbing. . . . Atwood ahs not lost her touch for following the darker paths of speculative fiction she easily creates a believable, contained future world. Seattle Weekly
Engrossing. . . . A novel of ideas, narrated with an almost scientific dispassion and a caustic, distanced humor. The prose is fast and clean. Rocky Mountain News
Riveting and thought-provoking. . . . Keen and cutting. . . . [Atwood] has grown into one of the most consistently imaginative and masterful fiction writers writing in English today. Richmond Times-Dispatch

Margaret Atwood projects us into a less-than-brave new world, an outlandish yet wholly believable space populated by a cast of memorable characters.The narrator is Snowman. As the story begins, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, his life was one of comparative privilege, living with all the other smart, rich people in the gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside in the chaotic 'pleeblands'.) How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? "Environmental unconcern, genetic engineering, and bioterrorism have created the hollowed-out, haunted future world of Atwood’s ingenious and disturbing 11th novel... A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, and Russian revolutionary Zamyatin’s We. Atwood has surpassed herself." - Kirkus ReviewsMargaret Atwood is the world-renowned author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The multi-award-winning author has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which won the Booker Prize. She has also been shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2005 and 2007 for her entire body of work.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsSnowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey—with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake—through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

A Novel Of The Future Explores A World That Has Been Devastated By Ecological And Scientific Disasters. 1. Mango -- Flotsam -- Voice -- 2. Bonfire -- Organinc Farms -- Lunch -- 3. Nooners -- Downpour -- 4. Rakunk -- Hammer -- Crake -- Brainfrizz -- Hotttotts -- 5. Toast -- Fish -- Bottle -- 6. Oryx -- Birdcall -- Roses -- Pixieland Jazz -- 7. Sveltana -- Purring -- Blue -- 8. So Yummie -- Happicuppa -- Applied Rhetoric -- Asperger's U. -- Wolvogs -- Hypothetical -- Extinctathon -- 9. Hike -- Rejoovenesense -- Twister -- 10. Vulturizing -- Anooyoo -- Garage -- Gripless -- 11. Pigoons -- Radio -- Rampart -- 12. Pleebcrawl -- Blysspluss -- Maddaddam -- Paradice -- Crake In Love -- Takeout -- Airlock -- 13. Bubble -- Scribble -- Remnant -- 14. Idol -- Sermon -- 15. Footprint. Margaret Atwood.

<p><b>Oryx and Crake</b> is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.</p>


<p><strong>Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.</strong>
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The first book of the MaddAddam trilogy explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters. It is at once a love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey--with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake--through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. --Adapted from publisher description

"Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, morns the loss of his beloved Oryx ... considers the role of his genius friend Crake who had been working a formula for immortality at the RejoovenEsenseCompound."

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