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The Year of the Flood

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- Book - 2009 Science Fiction / Atwood, Margaret 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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The Waterless Flood submitted by Caser on June 16, 2010, 1:48pm I read The Year of the Flood without having read Oryx and Crake, Atwood's complementary previous novel that takes place in the same world as Flood, and I never thought I was missing anything. These are novels that can stand completely on their own in terms of setting, characters, and story. The dystopian world in Flood is fully realized from the "pleebland" lower class perspective, complete with sleazy clubs, Happicuppa coffee shops, Painball murderers roaming the streets, and an overwhelming sense of a corporate stranglehold on the daily life of the individual.

The Gardeners, the earth loving Christian cult to which our joint protagonists, Ren and Toby, belong, may be eccentric and at times even silly when contrasted with the hyper-technological world that is so rapidly destroying itself, but it's also the only true community in the novel insofar as they live in the same buildings and mostly look out for what's best for the group. The rest of the cold world consumes and works solely for themselves, making the "waterless flood" that The Gardeners are preparing for that much more realistic.

Ren and Toby are more sympathetic characters than I'm used to in an Atwood novel, which is testimony to her ability to not only develop an impending future with strong economic and social relevance, but also viable characters that are compelling enough to stand apart from their symbolic implications.

Dystopian submitted by rochelleotto on June 13, 2015, 7:45am I read Oryx and Crake and could not wait to read this, the second book of the series. I was not disappointed. I have a friend who read The Year of the Flood without reading Oryx and Crake and he enjoyed it, but I recommend reading it first. I am going to be reading the third book, MaddAddam, soon!

If you enjoy dystopian worlds, these books are for you. I hear it is going to be an HBO series!

Read this First submitted by spinkelman on July 16, 2016, 8:13pm I read this first before Oryx and Crake and that worked well for me. This is a fabulous trilogy and think this is the best of the three. Luckily, we don't have to choose.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 434 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385528771
9780307455475

SUBJECTS
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.
Dystopias.