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Oryx and Crate. Margaret Atwood. 2003.
Oryx and Crate. Margaret Atwood. 2003.
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The narrator of Atwood’s riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he’s sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigeons and wolvogs ravage the Pleeblands where ordinary people once lived, and in the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in he double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake’s high-tech bubble dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
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