By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventiveĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:34:24 Boxid IA132701 Boxid_2 CH101601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Curatenote shipped Donorīelvederetiburonlibrary Edition 1st ed. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.

Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.

Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Garden - Year of the flood - Creation day - Feast of Adam and all primates - Festival of arks - Saint Euell of wild foods - Mole day - April fish - Feast of serpent wisdom - Pollination day - Saint Dian, martyr - Predator day - Saint Rachel and all birds - Saint Terry and all wayfarers - Saint Julian and all soulsįrom the Publisher: The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability.

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