Her most accessible book in years, a gripping, unadorned story.” – The Onion “Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. Bursts with invention and mordant wit, none of which slows down its headlong pace. “Atwood does not disappoint.” – The Dallas Morning News Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader.” – The Daily Telegraph Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Jimmy and Crake grip like characters out of Greek tragedy. Powerful, inventive, playful and difficult to resist.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 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 Very readable.” – The New York Times Book Review A cunning and engrossing book by one of the great masters of the form.” – The Buffalo News “Gorgeously written, full of eyeball-smacking images and riveting social and scientific commentary. Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time.” – The Guardian “Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. literary artist par excellence.” – The Denver Post Good, solid, Swiftian science fiction from a. One of the year’s most surprising novels.” – The Economist a master.” – The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) Atwood has concocted here an all-too-possible vision. A feast of realism, science fiction, satire, elegy and then some. “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. “ stunning new novel–possibly her best since The Handmaid’s Tale.” – Time Out New York What gives the book a deeper resonance is its humanity.” – Newsday Its shrewd pacing neatly balances action and exposition. Oryx and Crake carries itself with a refreshing lightness. Keeps us on the edges of our seats.” - The Washington Post “A book too marvelous to miss.” - The San Diego Union-Tribune Oryx and Crake in the forefront of visionary fiction.” - The Seattle Times summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley. “Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world. Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.” - The Baltimore Sun “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. Atwood does Orwell one better.” - The New Yorker
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