Campbell Scott (son of George C.) is disarmingly laid back in his reading, but I felt he captured the inner thinkings of Jimmy/Snowman perfectly. The latter is told very close to a linear fashion, but Atwood mixes things up to match up with the present day story. The story takes place in two times, one the "present" day, sometime in the not too distant future, and the other outlining how things got to where they are. I haven't been this concerned about our future since I read Nature's End back in the 80's. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.Ītwood does her usual great job of not only telling a gripping tale, but of cautioning us about the costs of technology in terms of not only the effect on our planet, but also on our society. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humor, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. For listeners of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that listeners may find their view of the world forever changed after listening to it. A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize
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