Le dernier homme

No cover

Margaret Atwood: Le dernier homme (French language, 2005, Robert Laffont)

396 pages

French language

Published Feb. 24, 2005 by Robert Laffont.

ISBN:
978-2-221-10101-8
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
60427764

View on OpenLibrary

View on Inventaire

No rating (0 reviews)

Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. She has described the novel as speculative fiction and adventure romance, rather than pure science fiction, because it does not deal with things "we can't yet do or begin to do", yet goes beyond the amount of realism she associates with the novel form. It focuses on a lone character called Snowman, who finds himself in a bleak situation with only creatures called Crakers to keep him company. The reader learns of his past, as a boy called Jimmy, and of genetic experimentation and pharmaceutical engineering that occurred under the purview of Jimmy's peer, Glenn "Crake". The book was first published by McClelland and Stewart. It was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, as well as for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. Oryx and Crake is the first of the MaddAddam trilogy, followed by …

8 editions

Subjects

  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
  • Genetic engineering -- Fiction.
  • Male friendship -- Fiction.
  • New York (State) -- Fiction.