Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books
| ISBN | 1844080285 | | Pages | 448 | | ISBN13 | 9781844080281
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 350 | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Virago Press Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9781844080564 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Publication date | 25 Mar 2004 | | Width (mm) | 127 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own Lisa Appignanesi, The Independent Magazine Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader Saturday Telegraph Observer 'enlivening, deadpan wit and the mix of empathy and insight she always brings to her characters... Saturated in science, the novel is simulatneously alive with literary resonances... This superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined book joins The
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