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The Year of the Flood (Hardcover)

By: Margaret Atwood (Author)


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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 note

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. "The Year of the Flood" is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have 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 spa where many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, "The Year of the Flood" is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.

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.

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Pursuing 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.



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5 out of 5 stars 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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