YEAR TWENTY-FIVE, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD In the early morning Toby climbs up to the rooftop to watch the sunrise. She uses a mop handle for balance: the elevator stopped working some time ago and the back stairs are slick with damp, so if she slips and topples there won’t be anyone to pick her up. As the first heat hits, mist rises from among the swath. Set in the visionary future of Atwood’s acclaimed Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life/5(K). The Year of the Flood is a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits.” — Publisher’s Weekly “Canada’s greatest living novelist undoubtedly knows how to tell a gripping story.
The Year of the Flood is a fabulous and thought provoking novel from Margaret Atwood! And yet another novel from Atwood that I will need to read multiple times! Though the second book in the trilogy, The Year of the Flood, is more a companion novel to Oryx and Crake (Book 1) than a continuation of it. That end is also the end of "The Year of the Flood." Here Atwood has brilliantly re-told her own tale, through other mouths and focusing on different details, showing us how the kids Jimmy and. The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood. By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended.
The Year of the Flood () is a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, an award-winning novelist, poet, literary critic, and environmental activist from Canada. Published after Oryx and Crake (), The Year of the Flood is the second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, followed by MaddAddam (). YEAR TWENTY-FIVE, THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD In the early morning Toby climbs up to the rooftop to watch the sunrise. She uses a mop handle for balance: the elevator stopped working some time ago and the back stairs are slick with damp, so if she slips and topples there won’t be anyone to pick her up. As the first heat hits, mist rises from among the swath. The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on Septem in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, , in the United Kingdom. The novel was mentioned in numerous newspaper review articles looking forward to notable fiction of