Year of the Flood

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Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood (2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

432 pages

English language

Published 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-7481-1337-8
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The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability.

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. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. 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.

Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors …

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Subjects

  • Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Fiction, dystopian