Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I have never encountered elsewhere. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them. The observation of the human condition is both profound and impish. A book to galvanise me - Emma Reed * Daily Telegraph * Shocking and darkly humorous with much to say on the pharmaceutical and beauty industries. Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Although written in 2003, the year of Sars, many passages chill me to the core with their prescience, depicting elements of what we are living through now a reminder of the fine line between the imagined and the real. Mischief of a much darker variety drags me into the dystopian world of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. He doesnt know which is worse, a past he cant regain or a present that will destroy. I think it should have won - Anita Mason * Guardian * Oryx and Crake Quotes If he wants to be an asshole, its a free country. She was sold by her Southeast Asian parents, taken to the city and eventually made into a sex 'pixie' in some distant country. Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I have never encountered elsewhere. Oryxs story is a counterpoint to Jimmy and Crakes affluent adolescence.
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