Oryx and Crake

With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classicThe Handmaid's Tale,Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanityand its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn why we also learn about a world that could become ours one day.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty-five works of fiction, poetry, and essays, published in more than forty countries. Her most recent works include the Booker Prize—winning novel <b>The Blind Assassin</b><i> </i>and <b>Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing</b><i>. </i>Ms. Atwood lives in Toronto.