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Content: " From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale Oryx and Crake 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–,ith the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–,hrough 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."

Content: Rezension(1): " Margaret Atwood , whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale , her novels include Cat's Eye , short-listed for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace , which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin , winner of the 2000 Booker Prize, Oryx and Crake , short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize,and The Year of the Flood . She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson." Rezension(2): " The New Yorker : Towering and intrepid. . Atwood does Orwell one better." Rezension(3): " The Baltimore Sun :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." Rezension(4): " The Seattle Times :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." Rezension(5): " The San Diego Union-Tribune :A book too marvelous to miss." Rezension(6): " The Washington Post :Majestic. . Keeps us on the edges of our seats." Rezension(7): " Newsday :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." Rezension(8): " Time Out New York :[A] stunning new novel--possibly her best since The Handmaid's Tale ." Rezension(9): " The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina):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." Rezension(10): " The Economist :A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter. . One of the year's most surprising novels." Rezension(11): " The Denver Post :Sublime. . Good, solid, Swiftian science fiction from a . literary artist par excellence." Rezension(12): " People :Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . [Atwood's] wry wit makes dystopia fun." Rezension(13): " The Guardian :A crackling read. . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time." Rezension(14): " The Buffalo News :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." Rezension(15): " The New York Times Book Review :A powerful vision. . Very readable." Rezension(16): " The Atlanta Journal-Constitution :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." Rezension(17): " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :Original and chilling. . Powerful, inventive, playful and difficult to resist." Rezension(18): " The Daily Telegraph :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." Rezension(19): " The Dallas Morning Ne:Atwood does not disappoint." Rezension(20): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 1, 2003 Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid', Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event. As Jimmy, apparently the last human being on earth, makes his way back to the RejoovenEsencecompound for supplies, the reader is transported backwards toward that cataclysmic event, its full dimensions gradually revealed. Jimmy grew up in a world split between corporate compounds (gated communities metastasized into city-states) and pleeblands (unsafe, populous and polluted urban centers). His best friend was ",rake,",the name originally his handle in an interactive Net game, Extinctathon. Even Jimmy', mother-who ran off and joined an ecology guerrilla group when Jimmy was an adolescent-respected Crake, already a budding genius. The two friends first encountered Oryx on the Net,she was the eight-year-old star of a pedophilic film on a site called HottTotts. Oryx', story is a counterpoint to Jimmy and Crake', affluent adolescence. She was sold by her Southeast Asian parents, taken to the city and eventually made into a sex ",ixie",in some distant country. Jimmy meets Oryx much later-after college, after Crake gets Jimmy a job with ReJoovenEsence. Crake is designing the Crakers-a new, multicolored placid race of human beings, smelling vaguely of citron. He', procured Oryx to be his personal assistant. She teaches the Crakers how to cope in the world and goes out on secret missions. The mystery on which this riveting, disturbing tale hinges is how Crake and Oryx and civilization vanished, and how Jimmy-who also calls himself ",he Snowman,",after that other rare, hunted specimen, the Abominable Snowman-survived. Chesterton once wrote of the ",housand 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. (May 6) Forecast: Readers who know Atwood primarily as the author of The Handmaid', Tale will be thrilled by this return to the future,those who follow her work more closely will be even more impressed. This is a potential dystopian classic and should sell accordingly. Author tour. "

Note: Auszeichnungen: Governor General of Canada:Governor General's Literary Award Finalist

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ISBN: 9781415945384

Series Statement: MaddAddam Trilogy

Content: "A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood8217 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."

Content: Biographisches: "Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. She is the author of more than thirty books, novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood's work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye , both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Robber Bride , Alias Grace , winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,and The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake . She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson." Rezension(2): " The New Yorker :Towering and intrepid. . Atwood does Orwell one better." Rezension(3): " The Baltimore Sun :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." Rezension(4): " The Seattle Times :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." Rezension(5): " The San Diego Union-Tribune :A book too marvelous to miss." Rezension(6): " The Washington Post :Majestic. . Keeps us on the edges of our seats." Rezension(7): " Newsday :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." Rezension(8): " Time Out New York :[A] stunning new novel--possibly her best since The Handmaid's Tale ." Rezension(9): " The News &,Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina):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." Rezension(10): " The Economist :A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter. . One of the year's most surprising novels." Rezension(11): " The Denver Post :Sublime. . Good, solid, Swiftian science fiction from a . literary artist par excellence." Rezension(12): " People :Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . [Atwood's] wry wit makes dystopia fun." Rezension(13): " The Guardian :A crackling read. . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time." Rezension(14): " The Buffalo News :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." Rezension(15): " The New York Times Book Review :A powerful vision. . Very readable." Rezension(16): " The Atlanta Journal-Constitution :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." Rezension(17): " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :Original and chilling. . Powerful, inventive, playful and difficult to resist." Rezension(18): " The Daily Telegraph :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." Rezension(19): " The Dallas Morning News :Atwood does not disappoint." Rezension(20): " St. Petersburg Times :Gripping. . Bursts with invention and mordant wit, none of which slows down its headlong pace. . Atwood is in sleek form. . [Her] prescience is unsettling." Rezension(21): " USA Today :Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. . Atwood entices." Rezension(22): " The Onion :Compelling. . Packed with fascinating ideas. . Her most accessible book in years, a gripping, unadorned story." Rezension(23): " The Times (London):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." Rezension(24): " Seattle Weekly :Absorbing. . Atwood ahs not lost her touch for following the darker paths of speculative fiction--she easily creates a believable, contained future world." Rezension(25): " Rocky Mountain News :Engrossing. . A novel of ideas, narrated with an almost scientific dispassion and a caustic, distanced humor. The prose is fast and clean." Rezension(26): " Richmond Times-Dispatch :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." Rezension(27): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:Snowman may be the last man alive after a killer virus has decimated the world. In flashback, Snowman reveals his pre-plague world and the events leading to its inevitable devastation. In a society whose morality and ethics have fallen to the Great God Science, biotechies tampering with the genetic code have engineered brainless chickens with three breasts,designer babies,BlyssPlus, the Fountain of Youth in a pill,and a grotesque assortment of animals created for organ and tissue transplants. Campbell Scott's husky, intimate tones intensify Snowman's exhaustion and complement Atwood's always credible scenario. Atwood's impeccable storytelling offers tantalizing what ifs but no solutions. This is an important book by one of the great authors of our time read in the sexiest rasp since Frank Muller. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine" Rezension(28): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 1, 2003 Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid39"

Note: Auszeichnungen: Governor General of Canada:Governor General's Literary Award Finalist

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Author information: Atwood, Margaret