Oryx and Crake

Összefoglaló

New York Times Book Review: "What Atwood's inventive treatment of first and last things lacks is a plausible psychological basis....We can take in only so many confected scenarios of future life before we crave a complexity of character commensurate with the intelligence of the plot or the confident excellence of the writing. Alas, it is not to be. The characters' background stories feel somewhat arbitrarily assigned, and their actions are conditioned at every turn by the logic of the premise....But...a novel like ORYX AND CRAKE can address the present-day world in a way that crates a powerful para-literary experience. What tones we lose through the lack of true complexity of character are to some degree compensated for by the peculiar triangulation that obtains among reader, novel and world."