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The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel) by Margaret Atwood, Renée Nault (Art & Adaptation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel) about?

Renee Nault was chosen by author Margaret Atwood to adapt & illustrate Atwood's 1985 classic dystopian novel. Each page is hand-painted in vivid watercolor. It’s hard to imagine a more colourful, more ironically vivid, dystopia than the Republic of Gilead in the hands of Renee Nault. The 38-year-old Vancouver artist has turned The Handmaid’s Tale, the most protean of Margaret Atwood’s novels—already refashioned as a feature film, opera, radio drama, stage play & ongoing TV series—into a strikingly beautiful graphic novel. Dystopias, places of ash & toxicity both physically & mentally, tend to be illustrated in shades of grey, Nault allows in an interview, “and that works, obviously—I used those tones a lot for the background. But I really wanted to pare down to the colours assigned to people’s social positions. Gilead is such a rigid, role-based society, & the novel has so much to say about gender roles as seen through women’s perspectives, that the first thing anyone notices about anyone else is what colour they’re wearing. Often, it’s the only thing, because those limited roles are all that matters in that society.”The artist “really liked” doing the wild scenes at the ruling el

Who reads The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Margaret Atwood, Renée Nault (Art & Adaptation)
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2019
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Comics, Graphic Novel

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