The outrageous imagination of Margaret Atwood has never been better. Dark, witty, scary and very credible, this is a mystery, an adventure story, a page-turner and a brilliant novel. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939. She is Canada's most eminent novelist and poet is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she has won many literary prizes in other countries. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. Her latest novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize.
The writing is spare. The structure is tight. The observation of
the human condition is both profound and impish. Character is
crucial. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them.
Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I
have never encountered elsewhere. It was nominated for the Man
Booker. I think it should have won
*Guardian*
Mischief of a much darker variety drags me into the dystopian world
of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. 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 . . .
Shocking and darkly humorous with much to say on the pharmaceutical
and beauty industries. A book to galvanise me
*Daily Telegraph*
The writing is spare. The structure is tight. The observation of
the human condition is both profound and impish. Character is
crucial. The issues are huge and we feel the weight of them.
Finally, it leaves the reader on a cliff-edge the like of which I
have never encountered elsewhere. It was nominated for the Man
Booker. I think it should have won
*Guardian*
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