5/24/2023 0 Comments Year of the flood trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() The whole world of the novels is a future wherein biological manufacturing is the norm and companies serve as the main units of life, housing families in compounds. I mention this only because it seems obvious that we need Snowman to contrast with one of the more prominent narrators in the latter two, Toby, a female Gardener. Oryx and Crake is Atwood’s only novel featuring a male, first-person protagonist (named Snowman) the other two novels vacillate between voices, with the third in the series having the most variety of narrators. As always, I aim for brevity when I write for this site, so pardon my simplifications. I read all three books over the course of a week and a half, finishing just fifteen minutes prior to the composition of this piece. Facebook was blowing up recently with news of Darren Aronofsky adapting the three books into an HBO miniseries, so I decided it was time. I was given the next two books as gifts over the years as they came out, but would set them gently next to the first, like glass miniatures on a shelf. I read Oryx and Crake when it came out in 2003, certainly never anticipating two follow-up novels. ![]()
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