The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.

A hardback ex-library book in great condition.

Great book that leaves you wondering if something like this could really happen in the not too distant future. I loved the way it was written, the way the plot goes from present to past so you gradually learn what catastrophe has befallen earth and why Snowman is the last human left. The ending was a bit abrupt and left me wondering what it was all about. Probably a book that needs a second reading -something I will be able to do as I have another copy in my permanent collection.

RELEASE NOTES:

I plan to release this at tonights meetup.

It's been almost three years since I got this book, I wanted to read it but I haven't gotten around to it, and since I'm clearing out my shelves I'm going to release it unread a.s.a.p.

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Given to a fellow Bookcrosser :)