Oryx and Crake,
Atwood, Margaret:
From Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since July 2, 2003
Quantity: 1From Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
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Quantity: 1About this Item
First Edition: Green decorative bds., 155 x 240 mm., 800 grms., 378 pp., attached green silk page-marker, original dw., unclipped, VG/Fine copy. Seller Inventory # 6070
Bibliographic Details
Title: Oryx and Crake,
Publisher: London Bloomsbury
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humor. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca
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