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Fiction Dystopian

MaddAddam

by (author) Margaret Atwood

Publisher
Knopf Canada
Initial publish date
Aug 2014
Category
Dystopian, General, Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780307397997
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $22.00

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"The trilogy may be her crowning achievement, a suite of books that ranks among the most important work produced by a writer from Canada, or any country, this century, and a narrative that will likely be remembered as her defining contribution to literature. Despite the fact the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic future, it is a very funny book. Maybe when the world ends all one can do is laugh." National Post
In this #1 national bestseller and international bestseller, Margaret Atwood brings together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood for the thrilling conclusion to her speculative fiction trilogy, which confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community and love. Combining adventure, humour, romance, superb storytelling and an imagination that is at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood, and a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.

About the author


Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. 

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Awards

  • Long-listed, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Editorial Reviews

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION AWARD
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A Globe and Mail Best Book
"The MaddAddam trilogy is, at its heart, a love letter to literature." —The Globe and Mail

"[Atwood] crafts a complex plot that weaves back and forth from the past to the future, yet the narrative momentum never abates." —National Post
"Atwood brings her cunning, impish, and bracing speculative trilogy to a gritty, stirring and resonant conclusion. . . . Atwood is ascendant, from her resilient characters to the feverishly suspenseful plot. . . . The coruscating finale is an ingenious, cautionary trilogy of hubris, fortitude, wisdom, love, and life's grand obstinacy." —Booklist (Starred Review)

"Unpredictably chilling and hilarious. . . . The novel holds a shrewd mirror to our possible future." —Bookseller

"Weaving adventure, romance, imagination, wit, and incredible world-building, Atwood has created a terrifying future and a compelling end to her tale." —Zoomer

User Reviews

Thought-provoking and laced with dark humour

Maddaddam is Margaret Atwood's wittiest book so far. It's set in a bleak near-future when ecological and scientific disasters have wiped out most of the human population on Earth. The story is surprisingly upbeat, for all that, and ends on a hopeful note.

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