The Year of the Flood Audiobook (Free)
- Mark Bramhall, Bernadette Dunne, Katie Macnichol
- Random House (Audio)
- 2009-09-22
Summary:
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Overflow is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The days and species have been changing at an instant rate, and the cultural compact is putting on as thin as environmental balance. Adam One, the kindly innovator from the God’s Gardeners-a religious beliefs devoted to the melding of technology and religion, as well as the preservation of most plant and animal life-has long forecasted a natural devastation that may alter Earth even as we about THE ENTIRE YEAR of the Overflow know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most individual life. Two females have got 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 health spa where many of the remedies are edible.Have others survived? Ren’s bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors from the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not forgetting the shadowy, corrupt policing drive from the ruling power .Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo’hair sheep with human locks, the pigs with mind cells. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad music group make their method through this unusual ” new world “, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can’t stay locked aside . . .By changes dark, sensitive, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood in her most excellent and inventive.