The Year of the Flood

ISBN: 0771008449

Author: Atwood, Margaret

Condition: New

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaids Tale.Adam One, the kindly leader of Gods Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion - has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have been spared: Ren, a young trapeze-dancer, locked inside a high-end sex club; and one of Gods Gardeners, Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Have others survived?By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and witty, The Year of the Flood unfolds Tobys and Rens stories during the years prior to their meeting again. The novel not only brilliantly reflects to us a world we recognize but poignantly reminds us of our enduring humanity.