Oryx and Crake

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Oryx and Crake

Title:

Oryx and Crake

Author:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Personal Author:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Publication Information:

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2003]

Physical Description:

378 pages ; 25 cm

Summary:

In Atwood's novel of the future, the narrator, Snowman, mourns the loss of his companions Oryx and Crake as he, himself, slowly starves in a wasteland once the home of people and now the home of insects, pigoons and wolvogs. Snowman tries to understand the events that led to the decline of the world he knew.

Language:

English

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 16.0 76412.

Subject Term:

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.

Genetic engineering -- Fiction.

Male friendship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (State) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.