Nan A. Talese
January 2013
On Sale: January 5, 2013
416 pages ISBN: 0385528787 EAN: 9780385528788 Kindle: B00BRUQ3PS Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of
the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret
Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the
ultimate endurance of community, and love.
Months
after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of
humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from
the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob
house, newly fortified against man and giant pigoon alike.
Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasi-human
species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake.
Their reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is
recovering from a debilitating fever, so it's left
to Toby to preach the Craker theology, with Crake as
Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings,
terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb.
Zeb has been searching for Adam One, founder of the
God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb
broke years ago to lead the MaddAddamites in active
resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. But now,
under threat of a Painballer attack, the MaddAddamites must
fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of
whom have four trotters. At the center of MaddAddam
is the story of Zeb's dark and twisted past, which
contains a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a
bizarre act of revenge.
Combining adventure, humor,
romance, superb storytelling, and an imagination at once
dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world,
MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood—a moving and
dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated
dystopian trilogy.
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