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
- 'Atwood at her best - dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry' The Independent
- 'superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined' Sunday Times
- 'A success and a breakthrough' London Review of Books
- 'Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader' Telegraph
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Published 25/03/2004
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