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Oryx and Crake, Atwood’s newest novel, explores the dark side of cloning and other scientific endeavors, comes from a long line of lab rats—her grandfather was a doctor, her father a biologist and her nephew and brother are researchers. Atwood herself planned to follow the family tradition, before landing in her current occupation. “I was headed toward being a biologist of some kind before I got kidnapped by writing,” she says...
...some real estate developer, Atwood is betting that it will someday become a reality. The novel’s website boasts dozens of real-life headlines—from the Times to the Post to Scientific American—that inspired specific events in the novel...
Like The Blind Assassin and many of her other novels, the bulk of Oryx and Crake is told in flashback, giving the reader a peculiar sense of suspense for events that have already taken place. In a mystery novel, Atwood says, “the immediate story is who gets to be dead. If, however, you’re dealing with a family, then that’s where the story...
DANCE | CityStep: A Novel Creation...
Being engaged with form, then, is probably the most important thing one can strive for, as a critic and as a listener. If I want to concern myself with depths of literal meaning, I’ll sooner read a novel than search for the same kind of voice in music, which hits ears first and mind second. Case in point: I bought a hardcore hip-hop record in Paris after listening to it for five minutes. I can’t understand a word of what Fratrie is saying, but his flow tells me all I need to know...