MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy
Sep 2013 · The MaddAddam Trilogy Book 3 · Vintage
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy "has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our own past" (The New York Times Book Review).
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.
As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales cohere into a luminous oral history that sets down humanity’s past—and points toward its future. Blending action, humor, romance, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Atwood—a moving and dramatic conclusion to her epic work of speculative fiction.
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.
As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales cohere into a luminous oral history that sets down humanity’s past—and points toward its future. Blending action, humor, romance, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world, MaddAddam is vintage Atwood—a moving and dramatic conclusion to her epic work of speculative fiction.
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Cornelia F
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November 3, 2022
The first chapter is similar to the Year of the Flood, but apart from that the first half of the book is a drab Zeb fanfiction and teenage drama. The second half reveals some interesting new explanations and connections to the events in the previous books, but I found it slow and repetitive. It was worth skimming the book to know what happens to my favourite characters and who Adam One really is, but I felt it was dominated by nagging jealousy and long chapters of the same story being retold in children-speak to the Crakers. The ending is also long and drab. Disappointing in light of the two previous books.
Ryan Morris
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July 31, 2014
The first book was pretty okay but not great. The second became ponderous and far too repetitive. At least this had a conclusion even if it was only a fair one. Atwood largely took the easy way out when closing the book. There were inconsistencies with the characters. A couple years and buildings are falling over? Buildings are overgrown not to mention the lottery winning luck of who survived while billions died. I could have spent my time reading better books.
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James Reagan
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October 13, 2015
I do not like how she writes so many pages about characters in the past, when I wanted to know what would happen in the future.
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About the author
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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