Oryx And Crake - Brossura

Atwood, Margaret

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844080285 ISBN 13: 9781844080281

Casa editrice: Virago, 2009

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

The writing is spare. The structure is tight. The observation of the human condition is both profound and impish. Character is crucial. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them. Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I have never encountered elsewhere. It was nominated for the Man Booker. I think it should have won (Anita Mason Guardian)

Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own (Lisa Appignanesi, The Independent Magazine)

Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader (Saturday Telegraph)

Enlivening, deadpan wit and the mix of empathy and insight she always brings to her characters . . . Saturated in science, the novel is simulatneously alive with literary resonances . . . superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined (Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

* An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844080285
• ISBN 13: 9781844080281
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 436