Margaret Atwood
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| Title | : | The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2) |
| Author | : | Margaret Atwood |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First United States Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 431 pages |
| Published | : | September 22nd 2009 by Doubleday Nan A. Talese |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, "The Year of the Flood" is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.
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| Original Title: | The Year of the Flood |
| ISBN: | 0385528779 (ISBN13: 9780385528771) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | MaddAddam #2 |
| Characters: | Snowman, Oryx, Crake, Toby, Ren, Zeb |
| Literary Awards: | Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2009), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2011), CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2014), IMPAC Award Nominee (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & Science Fiction (2009) |
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Following late on your thread, I am currently reading The Testaments. I have read the first two of this "series" so was trying to recall it viaI absolutely loved this book, one of the best I ever read. Amazing how a writer can make up such a story, of an apocalyptic world caused by 'the waterless flood' (an man-made plague)..and what this self-destruction does to the world of ours. I remember loving 'Oryx and Crake' for the weirdness and confronting character of the story, but I actually liked this one a bit better, contrary to other reviewers. This because I was intrigued by and really liked the stories of the female main players in
Throughout my adult life, every time I've set to fretting about something, if I have ever been composed of the proper combination of melancholy, apathy, and bitters to warrant the interest of my hovering mother, in a state of exasperation she always runs a line on me about perspective, about humbling myself by pondering the countless masses of people in the world who have it so much worse than me; that I should always feel grateful, and that thinking otherwise is simply being small-minded and
*locales, not locals
Having survived that devastating plague Crake unleashed on the human race in "Oryx & Crake" (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), Toby and Ren are now doing their best to survive the empty yet menacing cityscape they were stuck in when all Hell broke loose. Toby was rescued from a life of hardship and degradation by the Gardeners, a strange eco-cult that predicted the "Flood", as where Ren was made to join them when her mother ran off from a cushioned life to be with one of their
A brilliant satire! The Year of the Flood explores the touchy feely side of the end of the world. How did the free love hippy, earth, organic crowd see the coming quake. How did they prepare. Who were they? It was a fascinating journey. Also the points of view in this book were primarily women. One was a life weary intelligent person who learned to adapt and the other a vacuous, naïve young girl and how she saw the world she grew up in. In this one, we get to see an adult view of how this
This is one of the most important and necessary novels written in the twenty-first century so far. Its relevant, its powerful and it really is needed. Go read it! Margaret Atwood ended the world in Oryx and Crake. She presented a vision of the future that wasnt too far removed from where the planet is heading. And, in a way, this book is an answer to such environmental catastrophe. Firstly though, its worth mentioning that this isnt really a sequel, its told alongside the events of the first
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