![]() ![]() ![]() Rethink’s Robbie Percy said that he and fellow creative director Caroline Friesen came up with the idea. The fireproof narrative is a joint project among PEN, Atwood, Penguin Random House and two companies based in Toronto, where Atwood is a longtime resident: the Rethink creative agency and The Gas Company Inc., a graphic arts and bookbinding specialty studio. “To see her classic novel about the dangers of oppression reborn in this innovative, unburnable edition is a timely reminder of what’s at stake in the battle against censorship,” Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a statement. “In the category of things you never expected, this is one of them,” she said in a telephone interview. Proceeds will be donated to PEN, which advocates for free expression around the world. They launched the initiative with a brief video that shows Atwood attempting in vain to incinerate her classic novel about a totalitarian patriarchy, the Republic of Gilead. On Monday night, timed for PEN America’s annual gala, Atwood and Penguin Random House announced that a one-off, unburnable edition of “ The Handmaid’s Tale” would be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York. WATCH: Why Margaret Atwood saw this as the moment for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel But until recently she had spared herself the nightmare of trying to burn one of her own books. ![]() NEW YORK (AP) - Margaret Atwood has imagined apocalyptic disaster, Dystopian government and an author faking her own death. ![]()
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