Publishers Weekly, April 7th, 2003
Margaret Atwood. Doubleday $26 (432p) ISBN 0-385-50385-7
* Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. In her latest, the future is even bleaker. The triple whammy of runaway social inequality, genetic technology and catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event. As Jimmy, apparently the last human being on earth, makes his way back to the RejoovenEsencecompound for supplies, the reader is transported backwards toward that cataclysmic event, its full dimensions gradually revealed.
Jimmy grew up in a world split between ...
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