Volume 50, Number 11 · July 3, 2003
After the Fall
By Daniel Mendelsohn
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 376 pp., $26.00
In a recent article for the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood describes the moment that inspired the latest of her dystopian fantasies, Oryx and Crake, which, as its eponymous allusion to endangered species suggests, is concerned with ecological disaster in the not-too-distant future:
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