The Year of the Flood

Hardcover, 448 pages

Published Sept. 8, 2009 by McClelland & Stewart.

ISBN:
978-0-7710-0844-3
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OCLC Number:
310153596

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The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability.

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. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. 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.

Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors …

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Subjects

  • Literature & Fiction -- Authors, A-Z -- ( A ) -- Atwood, Margaret
  • Literature & Fiction -- Literary
  • Mystery & Thrillers -- Thrillers -- Suspense