The Resource Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood
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- Summary
- The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is 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 pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and 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 the 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition in the United States of America.
- Extent
- 376 pages (hardcover)
- Note
- Book 1 of the MaddAddam Trilogy (series numeration from NoveList)
- Isbn
- 9780385503853
- Label
- Oryx and Crake : a novel
- Title
- Oryx and Crake
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Title variation
- Oryx & Crake
- Subject
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- Genetic engineering -- Fiction
- trueMale friendship
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- trueSocial science fiction
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- Romance fiction
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- trueApocalyptic fiction
- trueBiotechnology
- trueCanada
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueDisasters
- Dystopian fiction
- trueDystopias
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is 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 pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and 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 the 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
- Summary
- A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2003.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2003
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 010348
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Atwood, Margaret
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.A8
- LC item number
- O7 2003
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- MaddAddam trilogy
- Series volume
- Book 1]
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Genetic engineering
- New York (State)
- Male friendship
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood
- Note
- Book 1 of the MaddAddam Trilogy (series numeration from NoveList)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 18178443
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition in the United States of America.
- Extent
- 376 pages (hardcover)
- Isbn
- 9780385503853
- Lccn
- 2002073290
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood
- Note
- Book 1 of the MaddAddam Trilogy (series numeration from NoveList)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 18178443
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition in the United States of America.
- Extent
- 376 pages (hardcover)
- Isbn
- 9780385503853
- Lccn
- 2002073290
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
Subject
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueEcology
- trueEnvironmental degradation
- Genetic engineering -- Fiction
- trueMale friendship
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- trueSocial science fiction
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- Romance fiction
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- trueApocalyptic fiction
- trueBiotechnology
- trueCanada
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueDisasters
- Dystopian fiction
- trueDystopias
Genre
- trueLiterary fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueApocalyptic fiction
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueDystopian fiction
- Fiction
- trueScience fiction
- trueSocial science fiction
Member of
Included in
- trueFantasy/SF: Canadian Authors
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2003
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2003
- trueFor Fans of 1984
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