YEAR TWENTY-FIVE, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD In the early morning Toby climbs up to the rooftop to watch the sunrise. She uses a mop handle for balance: the elevator stopped working some time ago and the back stairs are slick with damp, so if she slips and topples there won’t be anyone to pick her up. As the first heat hits, mist rises from among the swath. The Year of the Flood is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits.” — Publisher’s Weekly “Canada’s greatest living novelist undoubtedly knows how to tell a gripping story. The year 25 is referred to as The Year of the Flood. We are not told when or why the years have been reset. The flood is metaphorically used to describe the pandemic that is set in motion by Crake in the first novel that ends up, for all intents and purposes, wiping out the human species.4/5.
That end is also the end of "The Year of the Flood." Here Atwood has brilliantly re-told her own tale, through other mouths and focusing on different details, showing us how the kids Jimmy and. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. Set in the visionary future of Atwood's acclaimed Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. The Year of the Flood consistently does what one expects of any work by Margaret Atwood: It entertains, spins out suspense and rewards a reader's basic impulse, all the while subtly and expertly maintaining its literary respectability." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "[An] entertaining, often mesmerizing, consciousness-raising novel.
The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on Septem in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, , in the United Kingdom. The novel was mentioned in numerous newspaper review articles looking forward to notable fiction of The Year of the Flood () is a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, an award-winning novelist, poet, literary critic, and environmental activist from Canada. Published after Oryx and Crake (), The Year of the Flood is the second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, followed by MaddAddam (). YEAR TWENTY-FIVE, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD In the early morning Toby climbs up to the rooftop to watch the sunrise. She uses a mop handle for balance: the elevator stopped working some time ago and the back stairs are slick with damp, so if she slips and topples there won’t be anyone to pick her up. As the first heat hits, mist rises from among the swath.
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