ISBN: 9780747562597

Synopsis 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. ’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

Bookclub Review Atwood at her best – dark, dry witty and yet moving. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader. Oryx and Crake is a parable an imaginative text for the antiglobalisation movement. This book looks ahead to warn us about the results of human short-sightedness and selfishness.