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Zusatztext “Towering and intrepid. . . . Atwood does Orwell one better.” — The New Yorker “Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet. . . . Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.” — The Baltimore Sun “Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world . . . summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley. . . . Oryx and Crake [is] in the forefront of visionary fiction.” — The Seattle Times “A book too marvelous to miss.” — The San Diego Union-Tribune “Majestic. . . . Keeps us on the edges of our seats.” — The Washington Post “A compelling futuristic vision. . . . Oryx and Crake carries itself with a refreshing lightness. . . . Its shrewd pacing neatly balances action and exposition. . . . What gives the book a deeper resonance is its humanity.” – Newsday “[A] stunning new novel–possibly her best since The 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. “Truly remarkable. . . . As fun as it is dark. . . . A feast of realism, science fiction, satire, elegy and then some. . . . Atwood has concocted here an all-too-possible vision. . . . [She is] a master.” – The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) “A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter. . . . One of the year’s most surprising novels.” – The Economist “Sublime. . . . Good, solid, Swiftian science fiction from a . . . literary artist par excellence.” – The Denver Post “Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . . . [Atwood’s] wry wit makes dystopia fun.” – People “A crackling read. . . . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time.” – The Guardian “Gorgeously written, full of eyeball-smacking images and riveting social and scientific commentary. . . . A cunning and engrossing book by one of the great masters of the form.” – The Buffalo News “A powerful vision. . . . Very readable.” – The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant, impossible to put down. . . . Atwood . . . is at once commanding and enchanting. Piercingly intelligent and piquantly witty, highly imaginative and unfailingly compassionate, she is a spoonful-of-sugar storyteller, concealing the strong and necessary medicine of her stinging social commentary within the balm of dazzlingly complicated and compelling characters and intricate and involving predicaments.” – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Original and chilling. . . . Powerful, inventive, playful and difficult to resist.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Brilliantly constructed. . . . Jimmy and Crake grip like characters out of Greek tragedy. . . . Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader.” – The Daily Telegraph “Atwood does not disappoint.” – The Dallas Morning News “Gripping. . . . Bursts with invention and mordant wit, none of which slows down its headlong pace. . . . Atwood is in sleek form. . . . [Her] prescience is unsettling.” – St. Petersburg Times “Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. . . . Atwood entices.” – USA Today “Compelling. . . . Packed with fascinating ideas. . . . Her most accessible book in years, a gripping, unadorned story.” – The Onion “This superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined book joins The Handmaid’s Tale in the distinguished comp...
