Sotheby's will auction a fireproof version of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, in a statement against increasing censorship and the surge of book-bannings taking place in American schools.
Margaret Atwood's"The Handmaid's Tale" has often provoked controversy, facing book bans over the decades since its release in 1985.and a surge in book-banning efforts in American schools, Atwood and publisher Penguin Random House have released a single"unburnable" copy of the seminal novel, a dystopian tale about a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the privileged."I never thought I'd be trying to burn one of my own books...
The fireproof version is being auctioned by Sotheby's New York on Wednesday with a high estimate of $100,000. Proceeds will go towards PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization, which recently released afinding that 1,586 books were banned in US schools over a nine-month period from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022.
Texas led the country with the most book bans -- 713 -- affecting 16 school districts, the report said. Last year the state's governor Greg Abbott called on school boards tobooks he described as"pornography." Pennsylvania and Florida had 456 and 204 bans, respectively. PEN America defines a book ban as"any action taken against a book based on its content" that leads to the removal or restriction of a previously accessible title.
"The Handmaid's Tale" was among titles targeted for sexual or health-related content, while a"disproportionate" number of bans focused on stories relating to LGBTQ+ people and people of color, according to PEN America. Such bans
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