One of the year's most surprising novels." The Economist "Sublime. a master." The News & Observer(Raleigh, North Carolina) "A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter. Atwood has concocted here an all-too-possible vision. A feast of realism, science fiction, satire, elegy and then some. What gives the book a deeper resonance is its humanity." Newsday " stunning new novelpossibly her best sinceThe Handmaid's Tale." Time Out New York "A delightful amalgam for the sophisticated reader: her perfectly placed prose, poetic language and tongue-in-cheek tone are ubiquitous throughout, as if an enchanted nanny is telling one a dark bedtime story of alienation and ruin while lovingly stroking one's head." Ms. Its shrewd pacing neatly balances action and exposition. Keeps us on the edges of our seats." -The Washington Post "A compelling futuristic vision.Oryx and Crakecarries itself with a refreshing lightness. summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley.Oryx and Crake in the forefront of visionary fiction." -The Seattle Times "A book too marvelous to miss." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "Majestic. Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying." -The Baltimore Sun "Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world. Atwood does Orwell one better." -The New Yorker "Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, butOryx and Crakemay well be her best work yet. It was nominated for the Man Booker."Towering and intrepid. 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. 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. I think it should have won - Anita Mason * Guardian *
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