Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, mourns the loss of his beloved Oryx, a girl he met through a kiddie porn Web site, and considers the role of his genius friend Crake who had been working on a formula for immortality at the RejoovenEsenseCompound.
2) Alias Grace
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Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
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Moral Disorder is a novel broken down into ten stories that reassemble a series of moments in the lives of various characters over several decades. The settings are also varied. It includes stories entitled: The Bad News, The Art of Cooking and Serving, The Headless Horseman, My Last Duchess, The Other Place, Monopoly, Moral Disorder, The Entities, The Labrador Fiasco, and The Boys at the Lab. These funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking,...