The Resource Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood, (electronic resource)
Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood, (electronic resource)
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The item Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.
- Extent
- 376 p.
- Isbn
- 9781400078981
- Link
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- Label
- Oryx and Crake : a novel
- Title
- Oryx and Crake
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Atwood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Atwood, Margaret
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.A8
- LC item number
- O79 2003eb
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Genetic engineering
- Male friendship
- Dystopias
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Genetic engineering
- Male friendship
- Dystopias
- New York (State)
- New York (State)
- Label
- Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood, (electronic resource)
- Link
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- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.
- Extent
- 376 p.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400078981
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 7a1b0716-7acd-4748-bdfb-9f99cacc79cd
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn289724601
- (OCoLC)289724601
- 858152
- Label
- Oryx and Crake : a novel, Margaret Atwood, (electronic resource)
- Link
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- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.
- Extent
- 376 p.
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400078981
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 7a1b0716-7acd-4748-bdfb-9f99cacc79cd
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn289724601
- (OCoLC)289724601
- 858152
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