![]() Told in simple prose, these sections are moving, but also very funny. Even worse are the "Painballers": rogue psychopaths who found superstardom through a sport that makes Rollerball look like crown green bowling. There are monster pigs (part Homer, part Orwell) who rage whenever one of their number ends up in a bacon sandwich. There are many ways this can be accomplished. Atwood's misfits forage, cook, bicker, reminisce about decent coffee, have sex, hold secret crushes, and try desperately not to die. At the centre is a band of rag-tag survivors who have out-lasted a global pandemic sent to cleanse the planet of mankind once and for all. The plot is rudimentary, but in its final stages tense and exciting. ![]() ![]() Get money off this title at the Independent book store MaddAddam both completes the series and remixes its opening episodes, which is apt, as motifs of storytelling, splicing, origins and endings run throughout Margaret Atwood's new work. MaddAddam is the final part of a trilogy that began in 2003 with Oryx and Crake and continued six years later with The Year of the Flood. ![]()
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