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The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague - has ended the world.
But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?
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Prescient and inventive (Tracy-Ann Oberman)
** 'A tour de force . . . as pacy as a thriller . . . laced with Atwood's dry wit, and her savage, credible invention (Erica Wagner, The Times)
** 'Atwood knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect . . . The Year of the Flood isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible (Jeanette Winterson)
** 'Margaret Atwood has outdone - and outsung - herself this time. The Year of the Flood is at once a solemn praise song to human hope and a dead-serious poke at our capacity for self-destruction . . . Shows Atwood at the pinnacle of her prodigious creative power s' Elle (** 'A sharp observer of the female psyche . . . Atwood's richly fertile imagination plays to exuberant and often comic effect')
Caroline Moore, Daily Telegraph (** 'A gripping and visceral book that showcases her pure storytelling talents with energy, inventiveness and narrative panache')
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** 'A tour de force . . . as pacy as a thriller . . . laced with Atwood's dry wit, and her savage, credible invention (Erica Wagner, The Times)
** 'Atwood knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect . . . The Year of the Flood isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible (Jeanette Winterson)
** 'Margaret Atwood has outdone - and outsung - herself this time. The Year of the Flood is at once a solemn praise song to human hope and a dead-serious poke at our capacity for self-destruction . . . Shows Atwood at the pinnacle of her prodigious creative power s' Elle (** 'A sharp observer of the female psyche . . . Atwood's richly fertile imagination plays to exuberant and often comic effect')
Caroline Moore, Daily Telegraph (** 'A gripping and visceral book that showcases her pure storytelling talents with energy, inventiveness and narrative panache')
* A major paperback from one of our great writers:following the first of her speculative fiction, ORYX AND CRAKE
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1844085643
- ISBN 13 9781844085644
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages528
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