Oryx and Crake

First UK edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. [xii], 378, [1]. Lime-green, patterned paper-boards; black endpapers. Jacket design by William Webb. Sewn-in green silk ribbon marker.

Signed by Author to title page. Hint of tanning to page edges, else Fine.

Atwood's eleventh novel. Shortlisted in 2003 for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Nominated for the 2004 Orange Prize. 50th in The Guardian's 2019 list of 'The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.

A man embarks on a journey in the aftermath of an ecological and scientific disaster, fearing he might be the last human left alive. A dystopian fable set in a futuristic world, and labelled "speculative fiction" and "adventure romance" by the author herself since it does not deal with "things that have not been invented yet". First book in the MaddAddam trilogy, followed by The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013). "Atwood at her best – dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry." –Independent