Folio Society
Factory Sealed - Shrink Wrapped
Illustrated by Anna and Elena Balbusso
Introduced by Margaret Atwood
‘Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen.’ Margaret Atwood’s chilling cautionary tale is illustrated by the Balbusso sisters.
Narrator Offred is a Handmaid serving the Republic of Gilead – formerly part of the United States. Her role is to bear children for her Commander, whose wife is unable to conceive. If Offred refuses, she will be hanged or sent to die of radiation sickness in the Colonies. Yet she can remember a different life, when she had a home, a husband, and – most agonisingly – her own child.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Bound in cloth blocked with a design by the artists
Set in Scala
336 pages
Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations
Plain slipcase
9˝ x 6¼˝