The Hand maid's Tale (Graphic Novel): The Graphic Novel (Gilead, 1)

The Hand maid's Tale (Graphic Novel): The Graphic Novel (Gilead, 1)

by Margaret Atwood (Author), Margaret Atwood (Author), Margaret Atwood (Author), Margaret Atwood (Author), Renée Nault (Illustrator), Renée Nault (Illustrator)

Synopsis

Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, ecause in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. The Handmaid's Tale and its iconic images - the red of the Handmaids, the blue of the Wives, the looming ileadean Eye - have been adapted into a film, an opera, a ballet, and multi-award-winning TV series. This groundbreaking new graphic novel edition, adapted and featuring arresting artwork by Renee Nault, is destined to become a classic in its own right.

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More Information

Format: hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published:

ISBN 10: 0224101935
ISBN 13: 9780224101936
Book Overview: This stunning graphic edition brings Margaret Atwood's terrifying modern classic to vivid life like never before

Media Reviews
Atwood takes us into a modern Orwellian nightmare... This haunting novel now seems scarily prophetic. Bleakly compelling and chilling, but with a redemptive twist. -- Rebecca Wallersteiner * Lady *
Four years in the making, this graphic novelisation by Atwood's fellow Canadian, illustrator Renee Nault, is strikingly visualised. * Bookseller *
Author Bio
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000. Renee Nault is a Canadian artist known for her vivid and dreamlike illustrations in watercolour and ink. Her work has appeared in books, magazines, and graphic novels worldwide. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia.? Please visit www.reneenault.com.