Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

Knopf Canada, Jul 27, 2010 - Fiction - 416 pages

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 Testaments

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.

Contents

• Mango: 3
• Bonfire 15: 15
• OrganInc Farms 22: 22
• Nooners 37: 37
• Downpour 44: 44
• Hammer 76: 59
• HottTotts Crake 88: 88
• Toast 95: 95
• Oryx 113: 113
• Birdcall 122: 122
• Pixieland Jazz 134: 134
• Sveltana 147: 147
• Purring 154: 154
• SoYummie 173: 173
• Applied Rhetoric 185: 185
• Happicuppa Aspergers 178: 192
• Wolvogs 199: 199
• Hypothetical 207: 207
• Hike 221: 221
• Vulturizing 241: 241
• AnooYoo 248: 248
• Pigoons 265: 265
• Pleebcrawl 283: 283
• BlyssPluss 290: 290
• Takeout 318: 318
• Bubble 333: 333
• Idol 357: 357
• Sermon 364: 364
• Footprint 371: 371

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Oryx and Crake; Volume 1 of The MaddAddam Trilogy
• Author: Margaret Atwood
• Publisher: Knopf Canada, 2010
• ISBN: 0307400840, 9780307400840
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic