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100			_aAtwood, Margaret
245			_aOryx and Crake
260			_bVirago Publishers, _c2003 _aLondon :
300			_a436 p. ; _c25 cm
365			_b599.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aAtwood, Margaret 1939- MaddAddam trilogy 1
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAs the story opens, the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland. 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 Snowman left with nothing but his bizarre memories - alone except for the more-than-perfect, 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.--BOOK JACKET.
650			_aDystopias
650			_aFiction
650			_aGenetic engineering
650			_aMale friendship
650			_aRomance
650			_aTriangles Interpersonal relations
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