Oryx and Crake delivers a fully satisfying, if often unsettling, reading experience. If you have read The Handmaid's Tale then you are familiar with this particular delicious style of Atwood's. By the time Oryx and Crake is finished, everything has become crystal clear for the reader, through a delightful process of hints, deductions and knowledge told outright, and then Atwood laughs at the self-satisfied reader with yet another conundrum as it ends. The information about Snowman's past and this event trickle slowly, through his reflections and memories, at first more tantalizing and mysterious than informational and explanatory. When Oryx and Crake first opens, the reader meets the narrator (Snowman) and is immediately aware that there has been a disaster of gigantic proportions. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England. She is the recipient of numerous honors, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize The Robber Bride Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Atwood's work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. She is the author of more than thirty books, novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto.
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