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Reviews"A gripping and visceral book that showcases the pure storytelling talents she displayed with such verve in her 2000 novel,The Blind Assassin." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Atwood is funny and clever, such a good writer and real thinker.... As ever with Atwood, it is friendship between women that is noted and celebrated - friendship not without its jealousies but friendship that survives rivalry and disappointment, and has a generosity that at the end of the novel allows for hope.... We don't know how [human nature] will evolve, or if we will evolve at all.The Year of the Floodisn't prophecy, but it is eerily plausible." -Jeanette Winterson,The New York Time Book Review "Canada's greatest living novelist undoubtedly knows how to tell a gripping story, as fans ofThe Blind AssassinandA Handmaid's Talealready 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..." -The Washington Post "Atwood unflinchingly holds aloft the sanctity of life - for all species - and the human quest for love." -Chicago Sun-Times "[The Year of the Flood] shows the Nobel Prize-worthy Atwood hellip; at the pinnacle of her prodigious creative powers. Her weigh-in on the breakdown of the social covenant comes during a time of historic global change that her story eerily both mirrors and foretells." -Elle Magazine "Profoundly imagined. . . . This is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Atwood orchestrates her narratives into a heart-pounding, mysterious and surprisingly touching finale. She enchants us so convincingly that after her spell is over, the 'real' world seems temporarily transformed.The Year of the Floodis both a warning and a gift." -NPR.org "Prodigiously imaginative and outrageously funny." -The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) "This is a work that amuses, informs, enlightens and, remarkably, also challenges its readers to be better persons." -San Antonio Express-News "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." -Booklist, starred review "Iconic Canadian author Margaret Atwood has once again written about a distressingly near future in which mass murder may be the best way to save the world." -Ms. Magazine "Another stimulating dystopia from this always-provocative author, whose complex, deeply involving characters inhabit a bizarre yet frighteningly believable future." -Kirkus Reviews Praise for Oryx and Crake: "Oyrx and Crake is a cautionary tale about humanity swept downriver on a raft." -Mel Gussow, New York Times "The novel's tantalizing questions will have readers turning the pages of this extraordinary book as fast as humanly possible. . . . Like Orwell and Huxley before her, Atwood takes the world as we know it and suggests scenarios both frightening and all-too-probable . . . "Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying, Oryx and Crake is a sharp-edged down-and-dirty page-turner with a deftly wrought message in Atwood's smart electric language." -Victoria Brownworth, Baltimore Sun "A dystopian novel is not intended as a literal forecast, or even necessarily as a logical extension of our current world. It is simply, and not so simply, a bad dream of our present time, an exquisitel, "[Written with] energy, inventiveness, and narrative panache. . . . A gripping and visceral book that showcases [Atwood's] pure storytelling talents." -Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times "[The Year of the Flood] shows the Nobel Prize-worthy Atwood . . . at the pinnacle of her prodigious creative powers." -Elle "A heart-pounding thriller." -The Washington Post Book World "Leave it to Atwood to find humor in a post-apocalyptic world as she covertly, and brilliantly, addresses questions of how we need to live on an imperiled planet." -Kansas City Star "Atwood is funny and clever, such a good writer and real thinker. . . .The Year of the Floodisn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible."-The New York Times Book Review "Timely and gripping. . . . Atwood tells a good story, one filled with suspense and even levity."-USA Today "Enthralling. . . . Memorable characters, a tightly controlled pace and shockingly plausible scenes make it fly-to a mysterious, skin-prickling ending."-San Francisco Chronicle "Atwood renders this civilization and these two lives within it with tenderness and insight, a healthy dread, and a guarded humor." -O, the Oprah Magazine "Atwood spins the most arresting alternate mythologies to our hell-bent world. . . .The Year of the Floodis a slap-happy romp through the end times. Stuffed with cornball hymns, genetic mutations worth of Thomas Pynchon and a pharmaceutical company run amok, it reads like dystopia verging on satire. She may be imagining a world in flames, but she's doing it with a dark cackle."-The Los Angeles Times "Thought-provoking, beautifully constructed, and rich with the imaginative flourishes for which [Atwood] is rightly famous. . . . A hugely entertaining and satisfying read."-The Irish Independent "Prodigiously imaginative and outrageously funny. . . . Atwood's wit is biting. . . . Her brilliance dazzles."-The Plain Dealer "Heart-pounding, mysterious and surprisingly touching. . . . She enchants us so convincingly that after her spell is over, the 'real' world seems temporarily transformed.The Year of the Floodis both a warning and a gift."-Jane Ciabattari,"Books We Like,"NPR.org "Atwood is a wry wizard at world-building. . . . Fans . . . should grab a biohazard suit, crawl into a hermetically sealed fallout shelter, and dive right in."-The Christian Science Monitor "Funny. . . . Entertaining. . . . You fall into her intensely inventive world and find yourself carried happily along." -Anthony Doerr,OrionMagazine "Atwood scores a 10."-Philadelphia Inquirer "Atwood's latest is a fiercely imagined tale of suffering that rivals Job's. . . . As dark as Atwood's vision may be, the bonds among her women give her work a bittersweet power."-People "Richly imagined. . . . Thought-provoking, unexpectedly funny and utterly original."-The Denver Post "Engrossing and suspenseful." -The New York Review of Books "Riveting. . . . Cunning, droll. . . . The intensity of her apocalyptic fantasy doesn't prevent Atwood from giving free rein to her peppery and inventive humor. . . . So she courts us with her puckish wit, holds us spellbound with suspense, and then confronts us with har
SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale Set in the visionary future of Atwood's acclaimed Oryx and Crake , The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away., NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments-- the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world of Oryx and Crake, is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.