ID #112167 |
Amazon's Price: $ 25.19
|
Summary of this Book... | ||
Snowman lives - survives - in a post-apocolypic world as a prophet, of sorts, to the Children of Crake. Flitting between Snowman's now and his pre-apocolypic past (when he was still called Jimmy), the story explains just who the Children of Crake are and why they are Jimmy/Snowman's responsibility. | ||
This type of Book is good for... | ||
Stretching your comfort zone. Atwood has a gift for turning the everyday mundane into futuristic extremism, which is invariably disquieting. | ||
I especially liked... | ||
*The unravelling of the gods Oryx and Crake into the woman Jimmy loved and his childhood friend. *The descriptions of the now-feral genetically modified animals and plants. | ||
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to... | ||
Hasen on to the sequel, The Year of the Flood. | ||
The author of this Book... | ||
Has also written The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace, among many, many others. | ||
Interested in buying this? Support Writing.Com by making your purchase of Oryx And Crake by Atwood, Margaret (2013) Paperback from Amazon.Com!
Created Oct 25, 2014 at 4:38pm •
Submit your own review...
|