The outrageous imagination of Margaret Atwood has never been better. Dark, witty, scary and very credible, this is a mystery, an adventure story, a page-turner and a brilliant novel. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.
The writing is spare. The structure is tight. The observation of
the human condition is both profound and impish. Character is
crucial. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them.
Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I
have never encountered elsewhere. It was nominated for the Man
Booker. I think it should have won
*Guardian*
Mischief of a much darker variety drags me into the dystopian world
of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. Although written in 2003, the
year of Sars, many passages chill me to the core with their
prescience, depicting elements of what we are living through now; a
reminder of the fine line between the imagined and the real . . .
Shocking and darkly humorous with much to say on the pharmaceutical
and beauty industries. A book to galvanise me
*Daily Telegraph*
Towering and intrepid . . . Atwood does Orwell one better
*New Yorker*
Majestic . . . Keeps us on the edges of our seats
*Washington Post*
[A] stunning new novel - possibly her best since The Handmaid's
Tale
*Time Out New York*
A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter . . . One of the year's most
surprising novels
*The Economist*
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
*Guardian*
A powerful vision. . . . Very readable
*New York Times Book Review*
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 short-sightedness
*The Times*
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
*Independent*
The writing is spare. The structure is tight. The observation of
the human condition is both profound and impish. Character is
crucial. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them.
Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I
have never encountered elsewhere. It was nominated for the Man
Booker. I think it should have won
*Guardian*
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