@article{338568,
      recid = {338568},
      author = {Atwood, Margaret,},
      title = {The year of the flood : a novel /},
      publisher = {Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {434 p. ;},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {From the Publisher:  The times and species have been  changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing  as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly  leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the  melding of science and religion, as well as the  preservation of all plant and animal life-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 survived:  Ren, a young trapeze dancer  locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and  Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa  where many of the treatments are edible. Have others  survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her  eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the  murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination  Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt  policing force of the ruling powers. Meanwhile,  gene-spliced life forms are proliferating:  the lion/lamb  blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with  human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad  band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and  Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't  stay locked away. By turns dark, tender, violent,  thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood  is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/338568},
}