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Original Title: | The Year of the Flood |
ISBN: | 0385528779 (ISBN13: 9780385528771) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | MaddAddam #2 |
Characters: | Snowman, Oryx, Crake, Toby, Ren, Zeb |
Literary Awards: | Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2009), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2011), CBC Canada Reads Nominee (2014), IMPAC Award Nominee (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & Science Fiction (2009) |

Margaret Atwood
Hardcover | Pages: 431 pages Rating: 4.07 | 97736 Users | 7397 Reviews
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Title | : | The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2) |
Author | : | Margaret Atwood |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First United States Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 431 pages |
Published | : | September 22nd 2009 by Doubleday Nan A. Talese |
Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, "The Year of the Flood" is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.
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Ratings: 4.07 From 97736 Users | 7397 ReviewsNotice Of Books The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam #2)
*locales, not localsProfoundly brilliant. Had I not read this directly after reading Oryx and Crake, I would have missed so many things - little nuances, passing comments made by the characters... it just enriched the earlier story and brought so much depth, context, and elegance. Like looking at the Rubin's vase optical illusion and only seeing it one way for so long, and then someone points out the other image right before your eyes. Of course, it was Ms. Atwood herself who constructed the image and slowly sheds
I agree with you Glenn and Lisa. Books have been my safe place these days.

3.5 starsI read this book for my English class this quarter and wow... this book is a brutally honest look at an apocalypse that feels very real and not so far into the future. It's of the water-less flood and it follows a group of people who call themselves the Gardner's. It mainly follows two women: Toby and Ren in alternating POV's. This book also contains some genetically engineered creatures that sound so fascinating like: liobams (a lion and a lamb), Mo'hair (sheeps with human hair),
TrilogyThis story is parallel to "Oryx and Crake" (reviewed here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), and has several characters in common, though the writing style and overall format is quite different. Having read both, I can't decide whether it is better to read them in publication order (O&C first) or not, but it's certainly good to read them in quick succession. As with O&C, it is about the characters; many aspects are only ever partially explained, part way through, leaving
Following late on your thread, I am currently reading The Testaments. I have read the first two of this "series" so was trying to recall it via
This was my first experience of Margaret Atwood and Im afraid I dont really get what all the fuss is about. Perhaps this is her worst novel? The first two hundred pages, relentless exposition bereft of dramatic tension, bored me. Its one of those novels that plays catch up starts at year twenty-five, then goes back to year zero and works its way forward. The two narrators, a kind of everygirl and everywoman, are members of a new age travellers cult, but essentially struck me as hackneyed soap
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