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Orwell's ‘1984’ to get a feminist rewrite (archive.md)

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– FrozeInFear [S] 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Title credit.
More from the Guardian article:

In Julia by Sandra Newman, the incidents of Nineteen Eighty-Four are seen through the woman’s eyes.
Orwell’s estate said it had been “looking for some time” for an author to tell the story of Smith’s lover, and that Newman, who has previously been longlisted for the Women’s prize and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, “proved to be the perfect fit”.
Julia will be published after Granta releases Newman’s new novel The Men – in which every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world – next June.

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– WeedleTLiar 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

And another blatant ripoff. This was already done in a graphic novel series called Y: The Last Man.

Does this Newman character have any original ideas, or is she being fêted for only riding coat-tails?

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