Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So for that matter are wolves and racoons. A man once named Jimmy lives in a tree wrapped in old bedsheets now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx the woman he loved teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are for some reason his responsibility. In Jimmy Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future part buffoon part Orpheus. An adman whos a sad man; a jealous lover whos in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past - Independent Gripping and remarkably imagined - London Review of Books
