About this Item
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2003 (London). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in near-fine condition (indentation mark on the top of the text block, bumped on the top and bottom of the spine and on the top and bottom corners of the front cover). Dust jacket is in near-fine condition (minor edge wear at the top of the spine). Brodart protected. 378 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Attached is a sewn-in green silk page-marker. Snowman's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bed sheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, his life was one of comparative privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he left alone with his bizarre memories?. Seller Inventory # 10721
Bibliographic Details
Title: Oryx and Crake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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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