Atwood responds to book bans with ‘unburnable’ edition of Handmaid’s Tale
by Martin Pengelly in New York from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZK6G)
Auction of fire-resistant edition comes ahead of an expected US supreme court ruling reversing the right to abortion
Amid political firestorms over books deemed by rightwingers to be unsuitable for school libraries, the author Margaret Atwood has announced an unburnable" edition of her most famous novel, The Handmaid's Tale.
The Canadian author, 82, appeared in a short YouTube video to announce the project, attempting to flambe the one-off tome with a flame-thrower.
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