Oryx and Crake

With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale,"" Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity--and 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 was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.<br><br>She is the author of more than thirty books, novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.<br><br>Atwood's work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include <b>The Handmaid's Tale</b> and <b>Cat's Eye<i>,</i></b> both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; <b>The Robber Bride</b>; <b>Alias Grace</b><i>,</i> winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and <b>The Blind Assassin<i>,</i></b> winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is <b>Oryx and Crake<i>.</i></b> She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as <i>The Sunday Times</i> Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England. <br><br>Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>