Atwood succeeds in painting a decidedly bleak, unsettling and eerily
plausible vision of a future where genetic engineering has been
harnessed to meet the demands of a society on the brink of environmental
collapse. The reader peers through the eyes of
Snowman, formerly known as “Jimmy", as he struggles to cope with the
possibility that he might be the sole human in existence following a
pandemic. While dystopian (or, as Atwood calls it, “speculative
fiction”) novels may not be everyone’s cup of tea, I thoroughly
enjoyed this book and left with plenty of food for thought.
Leatherby Libraries Call Number: PR 9199.3 .A8 O79 2004, 2nd Floor Humanities
Review submitted by Ashley Bloomfield, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education
Rating: Highly Recommended
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