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008 021007s2003 nyu 000 1 eng
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100 1 $aAtwood, Margaret,$d1939-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79102766
245 10 $aOryx and Crake :$ba novel /$cMargaret Atwood.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bNan A. Talese/Doubleday,$c2003.
300 $a376 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 1 $a"As 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.
520 8 $aInsects 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?
520 8 $aHe 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 0 $aTriangles (Interpersonal relations)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112615
650 0 $aGenetic engineering$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105122
650 0 $aMale friendship$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107166
651 0 $aNew York (State)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108411
655 7 $aScience fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
655 7 $aDystopias.$2gsafd
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