This is the second book in Atwood's dystopian trilogy: the first is Oryx and Crake (2003) the third is MaddAddam (2013). īy turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive. The Year of the Flood chronicles the lives of survivors of a deadly plague - mainly two women, Toby and Ren - as well as others in their immediate circle, some. The flood in question refers to a waterless flood, which turns out to be a human-devised pandemic that wipes out most of worlds population. The Year Of The Flood (Paperback) Margaret Atwood Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London (2010) ISBN 10: 1844085643 ISBN 13: 9781844085644 New Paperback Quantity: 1 Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. A little more than a decade ago, Margaret Atwood published The Year of the Flood - the second book in her dystopian MaddAddam trilogy. Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers.

Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. In 1996, he published his third major Barcelona novel, this time set in the 1940s, Una comedia ligera (A Light Comedy). Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. It was adapted to the screen by Mario Camus in 1999. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability.

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