The dystopian novel 'MaddAddam' ends the trilogy that includes 'Oryx and Crake' and 'The Year of the Flood' with biblical echoes and a sense of humor.
Sometimes Margaret Atwood can get a little goofy. I mean no disrespect to the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" — in fact, it's a good thing that she writes intelligent works of dystopian fiction with a sense of humor. Otherwise, the end of the world as we know it might be just too grim. Her new novel, "MaddAddam," concludes the trilogy begun in 2003 with "Oryx and Crake" and continued in "The Year of the Flood" (2009). The titles of the second and third books reference the origin and Noah stories found in the Bible. Atwood's flood is a plague created by a brilliant geneticist playing God, a man called Crake who tries to wipe out all the humans on Earth while creating a better species. Members of a fringe environmental group that survived address their senior men as Adam and women as Eve. These biblical echoes are far from holy, however: a key locale is a high-end sex club calls "Scales and Tails," where the acts incorporate snakes. Temptation, indeed.
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Sometimes Margaret Atwood can get a little goofy. I mean no disrespect to the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" — in fact, it's a good thing that she writes intelligent works of dystopian fiction with a sense of humor. Otherwise, the end of the world as we know it might be just too grim. Her new novel, "MaddAddam," concludes the trilogy begun in 2003 with "Oryx and Crake" and continued in "The Year of the Flood" (2009). The titles of the second and third books reference the origin and Noah stories found in the Bible. Atwood's flood is a plague created by a brilliant geneticist playing God, a man called Crake who tries to wipe out all the humans on Earth while creating a better species. Members of a fringe environmental group that survived address their senior men as Adam and women as Eve. These biblical echoes are far from holy, however: a key locale is a high-end sex club calls "Scales and Tails," where the acts incorporate snakes. Temptation, indeed.
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