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Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devotedto the melding of science and religion, the preservation of allspecies, the tending of the Earth, and the cultivation of bees andorganic crops on flat rooftops - has long predicted the WaterlessFlood. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two womenhave avoided it: the young trapeze-dancer, Ren, locked into thehigh-end sex club, Scales and Tails; and former SecretBurgersmeat-slinger turned Gardener, Toby, barricaded into the luxuriousAnooYoo Spa, where many of the treatments are edible. others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda, or the MaddAddameco-fighters? Ren's one-time teenage lover, Jimmy? Or the murderousPainballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Notto mention the CorpSeCorps, the shadowy and corrupt policing force ofthe ruling powers... Meanwhile, in the natural world, gene-splicedlife forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheepwith human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and hisintrepid hemp-clad band make their way through a ruined world, singingtheir devotional hymns and faithful to their creed and to their Saints- Saint Francis Assisi, Saint Rachel Carson, and Saint Al Gore amongthem - what odds for Ren and Toby, and for the human race? By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most effective.
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Praise for Margaret Atwood:
'Margaret Atwood is one of the most brilliant and unpredictable novelists alive' - Literary Review
