Oryx and Crake Audiobook (Free)
- Campbell Scott
- Random House (Audio)
- 2003-05-06
Summary:
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, champion of the Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is indeed utterly compelling, so prescient, thus relevant, thus terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their look at of the globe forever changed after reading it.
This is Margaret Atwood on the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing at all will ever appearance the same once again.
The narrator of Atwood’s riveting about Oryx and Crake novel calls himself Snowman. When the storyplot opens, he’s sleeping within a tree, wearing a vintage bedsheet, mourning the loss of his much loved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies inside a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where common people once lived, and the Substances that sheltered the amazing. As he tries to patch together what offers occurred, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything break apart therefore quickly? How come he remaining with only his haunting recollections? Alone except for the green-eyed Kids of Crake, who think of him as some sort of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the dual journey he will take – into his very own past, and back again to Crake’s high-tech bubble-dome, where in fact the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood tasks us into an outlandish yet wholly believable world populated by characters who will continue steadily to inhabit our dreams longer following the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood in the overall peak of her power.