About this title: The long-awaited new novel from the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin, The Year of the Flood" is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to Atwood's visionary power.
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780747585169ISBN:0747585164
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 448 pages. The long-awaited new novel from margaret atwood. the year of the flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. (Hardback) read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Date published: 2009-09-22
ISBN-13:9780385528771ISBN:0385528779
Description: Unmarked nice and clean. Hardcover with nice dust jacket. Hardcover in very good condition. Excellent unmarked text/images, good and clean. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780385528771ISBN:0385528779
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780739383971ISBN:0739383973
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780739383971ISBN:0739383973
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Edition: Large type / large print.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780739328507ISBN:0739328506
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 608 p. read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House
Date published: 2009-09-22
ISBN-13:9780739383971ISBN:0739383973
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday/Talese, NY
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780385528771ISBN:0385528779
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First US edition, first prnt. Signed by Atwood on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Actual image of the book; not a stock photo. read more
Edition: First edition. First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780385528771ISBN:0385528779
Description: New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Margaret Atwood directly on the title page, NOT inscribed to anyone. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Hardcover. Book is brand new and unread. No marks, no inscription, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price clipped, and in a protective mylar cover. This is a beautiful autographed first edition for collectors. read more
"4.5 stars. A "parallax" novel to "Oryx and Crake," one of my all-time favorite books. Atwood takes the reader back to a world that is frighteningly similar to our own, perched on the brink of epic ecological and social disaster. This time, the same events unfold mainly from the perspective of two different women, Toby and Ren, who are both connected to God's Gardeners, a vegan survivalist cult in the pleeblands (cities) that is preparing its members for the Waterless Flood. Snowman (Jimmy), the narrator of Oryx & Crake comes from a highly privileged background and the reader doesn't get a good sense of what life is like outside the Compounds in the first novel -- this novel depicts that life vividly, underscored by Atwood's wicked black humor. Completely gripping -- I stayed up until 4 AM finishing this one. If you haven't read Oryx & Crake recently, I recommend re-reading it before you read this one -- Atwood fleshes out a few characters who receive very brief mention in the first book (Amanda Payne, Bernice, Brenda) and it's very interesting to read their stories from a different perspective than Snowman's. My only complaint is that I found the dense web of connections between these characters and the Oryx & Crake characters a little unbelievable. But that's a pretty minor complaint in consideration all of the other awesomeness this book has to offer."
"Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood takes place in the same universe as Oryx and Crake, which means revisiting the CorpSeCorps, pigoons, pleeblands, ANooYoo, Helth-Wyzer, the Watson-Crick Institute - every fine detail of what will eventually be known as the MaddAddam Trilogy.
In the first installment, Atwood focused solely on Jimmy / Snowman and his involvement in the events that led to worldwide cataclysm. In this novel though, Atwood deals with many characters, most of whom are female, all of whom are part of God's Gardeners, a marginalized environmental activism group. The Gardeners resemble a religious cult and live to serve the earth, doing everything possible to not harm it or its creatures. Their leader, Adam One, provides sermons at the beginning of every chapter and follows them with a hymn, which provides a chronological and thematic framework to each chapter.
Much like its predecessor, the main character in this novel isn't a character itself, but rather the rich, provocative world that Atwood has created. However, unlike the first novel, the characters don't contribute as directly to the overall social upheaval. We hear about the events from other characters and put the pieces together ourselves. Though Atwood does begin each chapter with the year in which it is being told, she does travel liberally around time with each character, which can be a bit disorienting (a flashback to Year Ten can be told in Year Twenty-Five, and the transition from the present time can be very subtle).
Much like watching "Lost" or a similarly intricate TV show, the best parts of The Year of the Flood were the moments in which it overlapped with Oryx and Crake. Characters that appeared briefly and inconsequentially in the latter are fully developed in the former; more details are given regarding the downfall of civilization or "the Waterless Flood" as Adam One calls it; Jimmy and Glenn themselves make their own enlightening appearances.
I must admit that I'm still a bit confused regarding the whole MaddAddam network and what exactly their involvement was with the Watson-Crick pharmaceutical conspiracy. But that won't stop me from reading the third novel in this trilogy when it is released."
"Woah. This book hit me hard. The protagonists are members of The Gardeners, a protective "greenie" cult that shuns the mallway and strives to live simply and avoid eating "fellow Creatures," especially Secretburgers (known to go to desperate measures when the price of regular meats rises). The cunning CorpSeCorps controls most everything, every organized group, from the "Asian Fusion" pleebrat gang to the upper class compound, and especially its "enemies." The violence intensifies when we hear about Painball - the alternative to execution is to participate in this gladiator reality show to the death. Those with enough strength, cunning, and brutality survive to be released, where they can't often shake their ruthless, killing survival mode (at least not without the help of BlyssPluss, the latest protective, feel-good drug pushed by the Corporation). I have yet to read Oryx and Crake, but I feel compelled to read more of Margaret Atwood's work. Just as soon as my dreams go back to normal."
"I actually liked this better than its counterpart, Oryx and Crake (but you must read both, no matter what), and I think it's because this book focuses on two female protagonists this time, instead of Jimmy - Atwood is a genius, but she just doesn't write male characters well.
This book is hard to explain, especially to someone who hasn't read Oryx and Crake. So I'm going to disregard those people completely and just pretend you all know exactly what I'm talking about.
Basically, the events in this book occur at the exact same time most of the stuff in Oryx and Crake does. The two stories occasionally blend together, but for the most part the two time lines run parallel to each other. Our narrators are Toby and Ren, two women who both spent time as members of the religious/environmental group the God's Gardeners. This group holds the belief that there will be a "waterless flood" unleashed on the earth to purge mankind, and they prepare for this flood by storing supplies and learning how to live off the land. Because of this, they are the only ones who are prepared when Crake's virus wipes out the majority of the human population. This is the story of the disaster, the events leading up to it, and the people who survived it, told from the outside - we finally get to see what it's really like to live in the pleeblands.
That was probably the best part about the book for me - questions that didn't get answered in Oryx and Crake (like just how long Crake was working on his whole wipe-out-humanity plan) get answered, and characters who were merely background get full stories here. Remember Amanda Payne, Jimmy's artist girlfriend? She's a major character here, and is given so much more meaning and depth than she was allowed to have in the first book. That's another good thing - Jimmy is no longer telling the story, but he's still in the book. We get to see him and judge his actions through someone else's eyes, and the result was so fascinating it made me want to read the two books side by side to get the full effect.
That's the best advice I can give if you're considering reading this, by the way: read Oryx and Crake, and then immediately after, read The Year of the Flood. The smallest details and most minor characters from the first book become very important in the second, and you don't want to forget anything.
I said it in my Oryx and Crake review and I'll say it here again: nobody writes dystopia like Margaret Atwood. Kneel at her feet, lowly mortals."
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