MaddAddam Oryx And Crake
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Book
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ISBN 10
140007536X
ISBN 13
9781400075362
Category
Science Fiction/Fantaisie
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Publication Year
2019
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Volume
1
Pages
443
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Abstract
With the same lethal blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her now classic The Handmaid's Tale, margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity--and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, who lives in a tree because genetically engineered wolvogs and pigoons make the ground too dangerous. His only company are the beautiful, placid creatures who have replaced Homo sapiens.
To tell how this came about, Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when Snowman was named Jimmy. When he loved an elusive, degraded girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake, who wanted to correct some glitches in the human experiment. Out of their relationship comes a book that is at once a nightmarish revision of Genesis and an all-too-plausible postscript to Apocalypse.
To tell how this came about, Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when Snowman was named Jimmy. When he loved an elusive, degraded girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake, who wanted to correct some glitches in the human experiment. Out of their relationship comes a book that is at once a nightmarish revision of Genesis and an all-too-plausible postscript to Apocalypse.
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Descriptif : Roman
Résumé : Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
Descriptif : Roman
Résumé : Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.
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