Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
finished 6/3/04........... literary (science)
fiction............. rating 9.5
The story of a dystopian world, which could be
ours tomorrow, has the sole survivor of world-wide catastrophe trying to
maintain his existence while putting together the story of what happened.
Snowman now lives in a tree and scavenges for food and supplies among the
Crakers, the people his best friend Crake created. He finds himself doing a lot
of religious type story telling as the story of how this situation came to be
evolves in his head. Oryx is the woman of Crake and the desire of Snowman.
This is typical Atwood in that the protagonists are trying to make sense and tell the story of what happened and they only get to the crisis point at the end of the novel. So the beginning of the story is at the end of the book. During the book we are treated to the events leading up to the crisis point and the events following it, but we don't get the main question, "What happened ?" answered until the end. Maybe Atwood prefers the term speculative fiction because that's what the reader does... speculates.
This is typical Atwood in that the protagonists are trying to make sense and tell the story of what happened and they only get to the crisis point at the end of the novel. So the beginning of the story is at the end of the book. During the book we are treated to the events leading up to the crisis point and the events following it, but we don't get the main question, "What happened ?" answered until the end. Maybe Atwood prefers the term speculative fiction because that's what the reader does... speculates.
Posted: Sat - June 5, 2004 at 12:58 PM
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