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The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year ofthe Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to hervisionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and thesocial compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. AdamOne, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devotedto the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservationof all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disasterthat will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred,obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a youngtrapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales andTails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spawhere many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, hereco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderousPainballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison?Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the rulingpowers...
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and thesocial compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. AdamOne, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devotedto the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservationof all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disasterthat will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred,obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a youngtrapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales andTails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spawhere many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, hereco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderousPainballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison?Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the rulingpowers...