Oryx and Crake "The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where 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 he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the 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."  —The Publisher. Home Biography Novels Short Fiction Poetry Site Awards Official Site Oryx and Crake Excerpts from Oryx and Crake Chapter 1 - OryxandCrake.co.uk Plot Synopses Plot Synopsis - Oakland Tribune Plot Summary *spoiler* - NYU Interviews and Articles Regarding Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood: "Writing Oryx and Crake" Interview: Oryx and Crake Site Interview: "Grave New World", The Boston Phoenix (Mar 2004) "Atwood's Bleak Worlds Start in Nature", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Apr 2004) Book Reviews Selection of Reviews - OryxandCrake.co.uk The New York Times (M. Kakutani), 2003 The New York Times (S. Birkets), 2003 The Chicago Sun-Times, 2003 The San Francisco Chronicle, 2003 USA Today, 2003 Time Magazine, 2003 The Guardian, 2003 The Observer, 2003 The Spectator, 2003 The Independent, 2003 Quill and Quire, 2003 January Magazine, 2003 Bookreporter.com, 2003 Salon.com, 2003 Essays on Oryx and Crake Paradice Lost, Paradise Regained: homo faber and           the Makings of a New Beginning in Oryx and Crake - Danette DiMarco Margaret Atwood and the Hierarchy of Contempt - Peter Watts [.pdf] Study Guides and Miscellaneous Resources Oryx and Crake Reading Guide - OryxandCrake.co.uk Oryx and Crake Glossary - Random House Teacher's Guide to Oryx and Crake - CBC Study Questions for Oryx and Crake - Kirsten Fisher Other Oryx and Crake E-cards to Margaret Atwood's Novels to Margaret Atwood Luminarium Copyright ©1996-2007 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Book cover images remain under the copyright of their respective copyright owners. This page created on December 18, 2006 by Anniina Jokinen. Last updated January 3, 2007. About this Website | Luminarium Privacy Statement. Margaret Atwood has gone on to become not just a major Canadian Writer, and a woman writer (whom some would call a Feminist Writer), but an award-winning author of English literature. Her works include novels, short stories, poetry, etc.