By The Author Of The Handmaid's Tale And Alias Grace * Pigs Might Not Fly But They Are Strangely Altered. So, For That Matter, Are Wolves And Racoons. A Man, Once Named Jimmy, Lives In A Tree, Wrapped In Old Bedsheets, Now Calls Himself Snowman. The Voice Of Oryx, The Woman He Loved, Teasingly Haunts Him. And The Green-eyed Children Of Crake Are, For Some Reason, His Responsibility. * Praise For Oryx And Crake: 'in Jimmy, Atwood Has Created A Great Character: A Tragic-comic Artist Of The Future, Part Buffoon, Part Orpheus. An Adman Who's A Sad Man; A Jealous Lover Who's In Perpetual Mourning; A Fantasist Who Can Only Remember The Past' -independent 'gripping And Remarkably Imagined' -london Review Of Books