The Year of the Flood

Category: Book
By (author): Atwood, Margaret
Subject:  FICTION / Canadian
  FICTION / General
Awards: Trillium Book Award (2010) Short-listed
Scotiabank Giller Prize (2009) 07
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2011) 07
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: July 2010
Format: Book-paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 8.00in x 5.20in
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From The Publisher*

From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid's Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice

In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have unexpectedly survived: Ren, a young dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails (the cleanest dirty girls in town), and Toby, solitary and determined, who has barricaded herself inside a luxurious spa, watching and waiting. The women have to decide on their next move--they can't stay hidden forever. But is anyone else out there?

Review Quote*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 
FINALIST FOR THE TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR CBC CANADA READS
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
A Globe and Mail Best Book
A New York Times Notable Book 


"A gripping and visceral book that showcases Atwood's pure storytelling talents." The New York Times

"A heart-pounding thriller." The Washington Post

"Atwood is funny and clever. [She] knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect.... The Year of the Flood isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible." The New York Times Book Review

 "A gripping read, revealing Atwood in her most masterful storytelling mode.... The book is a cracked mirror of the times we live in." The Gazette
Biographical Note

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. A book of short stories called Stone Mattress: Nine Tales was published in 2014. Her novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. A volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
www.margaretatwood.ca