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- Number of Pages: 320
- ISBN: 0385528779
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113106266
- Release Date: September 22, 2009
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Year of the Flood"Browse more products related to "Margaret Atwood"Review"Canada's greatest living novelist undoubtedly knows how to tell a gripping story, as fans of THE BLIND ASSASSIN and THE HANDMAID'S TALE already know. But here there's a serious message, too: Look at what we're doing right now to our world, to nature, to ourselves. If this goes on..." "[Atwood] enchants us so convincingly that after her spell is over, the "real" world seems temporarily transformed. THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD is both a warning and a gift." "Atwood knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect--it's like one of those mirrors made with mercury that gives us both a deepening and a distorting effect, allowing both the depths of human nature and its potential mutations." "FLOOD's relentlessly fabulous inventions and despondent predictions become almost unbearable, espeically told in such gorgeously trenchant prose." "Atwood's villains are despicable, while her heroes are thorny, resilient, and contemplative, and their adventures are hair-raising....Atwood's mischievous, suspenseful, and sagacious dystopian novel follows the trajectory of current environmental debacles to a shattering possible conclusion with passionate concern and arch humor." (starred review) "This is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits...." (starred review) Publisher's noteThe long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. "The Year of the Flood" is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms. When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms. AnnotationPursuing the portrait of an apocalyptic near-future that she initiated in ORYX AND CRAKE--one ravaged by alarmingly familiar excessive ways--Margaret Atwood tells a story as complex and prescient as she did with one of her masterworks, THE HANDMAID'S TALE. Faced with extensive environmental destruction, the disturbing byproducts of rampant bioengineering, and plagues that constantly threaten--some people have left the throws of traditional society (or what's left of it) and have chosen to live in the "pleeblands" (this world's ghetto). And some have turned to religion for solace and guidance. Adam One is the influential leader of a fundamentalist Christian sect with a strong environmental, and Atwood's story focuses in on two members of the God's Gardeners, Toby and Ren. Readers familiar with ORYX AND CRAKE will find Atwood more optimistic here and will certainly be enthralled by how she has fleshed out her world. New readers need not shy away--this book stands on its own. As the best speculative fiction does, YEAR OF THE FLOOD presents a time and place excitingly new and different from our own, while addressing in very real ways the challenges confronting the here and now. If You Enjoy "The Year of the Flood (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Year of the Flood (Hardcover)" by Margaret Atwood (Author)Most Recent Customer Reviews  Stranger than fiction?, September 24, 2009
By Ullswater
This is an excellent book by an excellent writer - but is less fictional than
you might imagine. A green religion already exists and pre-dates this novel. It
can be found in the works of William Tarkovsky, a sample of which can be found
in youtube eco-video "The Book of New Creation"...
Another case of reality
being wierder than fiction?
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