Audiobook
Oryx and Crake
Call Number
- COMPACT DISC FICTION ATWO (CEN)
Edition
Library ed.
Performers
Read by Campbell Scott.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Published by arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing Group ; Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2003.
Physical Description
9 sound discs (10 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories?
Notes
Compact discs.
Unabridged version.