Oryx and Crake -- Margaret Atwood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future--from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

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.

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 03/30/2004
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780385721677

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 76412 / Oryx and Crake


Review Citation(s):
BookPage 05/01/2004 pg. 18
New York Times 05/30/2004 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 12/16/2007 pg. 16
Newsweek 08/09/2010 pg. 54

About the Author
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.