Oryx and Crake
Atwood, Margaret
From Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 2, 2001
Quantity: 1From Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 2, 2001
Quantity: 1About this Item
Pictorial green boards. The publisher's silk bookmark is bound in. With the complete number line. There are bumps to the spine ends. There is a bump to the lower page fore edges that affects ten pages. The dust jacket has only very minor wear. Without chips or tears. Not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages. Seller Inventory # 17704
Bibliographic Details
Title: Oryx and Crake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
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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