Oryx and Crake is the story of Snowman, a hermit living in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by plague and overrun with genetically modified animals and plants. Snowman, or Jimmy, knew the creators of this strange world and worked alongside them. Crake, his brilliant but amoral friend, engineered the plague that reconfigured the world. Oryx, an object of desire to both men, is an enigmatic woman who helped to usher in Crake's new, peaceful world.
Oryx and Crake Book Review Margaret Atwood began writing in early childhood and by mid adolescence she knew that she definitely wanted to be a writer Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 Her father was an entomologist and eight months of each year he did insect research in the forest so she spent part of her childhood living in the wilderness of northern Quebec The novel was published in 2003 during the time when SARS was overspreading the world The book got extra attention and immediatel