Name: Oryx And Crake
Price: 242.00 ZAR
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Author: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9780349004068

Type

Physical Book

Author

Margaret Atwood

Publisher

Virago

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780349004068

Oryx And Crake

Margaret Atwood (Author) · Virago · Paperback

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Synopsis "Oryx And Crake"

By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACE

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

Praise for Oryx and Crake:

'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' -INDEPENDENT

'Gripping and remarkably imagined' -LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) is one of the most prestigious writers on the international scene. A prolific author translated into more than forty languages, she has practiced all literary genres. Among her extensive output, the novels The Heart Goes Last, Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, Maddaddam, and Cat's Eye stand out, as well as the short story collection Stone Mattress and the essays The Penelopiad and Payback, all published by Salamandra. She has received, among others, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Governor General's Award, the Order of Arts and Letters, the Booker Prize (on two occasions), the Montale Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Giller Prize, the National Arts Club Literary Award, the Franz Kafka International Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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