MaddAddam
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Atwood, Margaret |
| Subject: | FICTION / Canadian |
| FICTION / Dystopian | |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| FICTION / Science Fiction / General | |
| Publisher: | Knopf Random Vintage Canada |
| Published: | August 2014 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Size: | 7.95in x 5.17in x 0.89in |
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| From The Publisher* | "The trilogy may be her crowning achievement, a suite of books that ranks among the most important work produced by a writer from Canada, or any country, this century, and a narrative that will likely be remembered as her defining contribution to literature. Despite the fact the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic future, it is a very funny book. Maybe when the world ends all one can do is laugh." National Post |
| Review Quote* | #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION AWARD A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book A Globe and Mail Best Book "The MaddAddam trilogy is, at its heart, a love letter to literature." The Globe and Mail "Atwood crafts a complex plot that weaves back and forth from the past to the future, yet the narrative momentum never abates." National Post "Atwood brings her cunning, impish, and bracing speculative trilogy to a gritty, stirring and resonant conclusion.... Atwood is ascendant, from her resilient characters to the feverishly suspenseful plot.... The coruscating finale is an ingenious, cautionary trilogy of hubris, fortitude, wisdom, love, and life's grand obstinacy." Booklist (STARRED REVIEW) "Unpredictably chilling and hilarious.... The novel holds a shrewd mirror to our possible future." Bookseller "Weaving adventure, romance, imagination, wit, and incredible world-building, Atwood has created a terrifying future and a compelling end to her tale." Zoomer |
| 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 |