| Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Central Branch | Fiction SF Atwoo | On loan until: 15/May/25 |
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This book sends you on an emotion roller-coaster from fear to curiosity, exploiting all aspects of its darker themes and tackles larger, controversial questions like the earth's population problem, can one man truly make a difference and how does living in a someone's shadow for your entire life feel.
| Title Statement | Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood. |
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| Author | Atwood, Margaret, 1939- |
| Publication | Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c2003. |
| Extent of Item | 378 p. |
| ISBN | 0771008686 |
| Other Number | 1272932 |
| Summary | In Atwood's novel of the future, the narrator, Snowman, mourns the loss of his companions Oryx and Crake as he, himself, slowly starves in a wasteland once the home of people and now the home of insects, pigoons and wolvogs. Snowman tries to understand the events that led to the decline of the world he knew. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction |
| Genetic engineering--Fiction | |
| Male friendship--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Dystopias |
