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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780307455475
Page: 448

My guest this week is the great writer Margaret Atwood, author of more than 40 books, including The Handmaid's Tale and most recently, The Year of the Flood. They're transparent, & thus hard to find. Don't laugh, but instead consider the essence of amoeba-ness. Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars over two decades to reduce the potential damage from another massive flood like the one that ravaged Missouri and eight other states in 1993. The Year of the Flood follows two survivors of “The Waterless Flood,” a global pandemic that has wiped out most, if not all, of humanity. 'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood reviewed by ChuckPalahniuk.net. €�To illustrate the futility of retreat, consider that within FEMA's new 100-year flood maps there are more than 500 million square feet of New York City buildings – equivalent to the entire city of Minneapolis. This was not an ordinary pandemic: it wouldn't be contained after a few hundred thousand deaths, then obliterated with biotools and bleach. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood McClelland & Stewart (2009), 448 pp. Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine. €�The books I end up writing are the ones that I would rather dodge altogether, but those are really the only ones I can write, because those are the ones I'm obsessed by. Booker-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood has always been surgical in her dissections of human character to reveal the darkness hidden within. So I would rather be an amoeba. Waaay up there on the podium of Saint James Cathedral in Toronto, pretty in pink, is Margaret Atwood, who filled the house for what is called a book launch, but is really a performance piece. A review of Margaret Atwood's “The Year of the Flood” … reviewed by Kara Martin. This was the Waterless Flood the Gardeners so often had warned about.