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The Natural Way of Things
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The Natural Way of Things

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A Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st century (Prism Magazine), Wood’s dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror.
Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Starved, sedated, the girls can’t be sure of anything–except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them.

Drawing strength from the animal instincts they’re forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for.

The Natural Way of Things is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind’s own vast contradictions–the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.

Winner 2016 Stella Prize 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award in Fiction

An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner

Finalist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Voss Literary Prize 2016 Victorian Premier’s Award 2016 The Miles Franklin Award

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Europa Editions
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
208
ISBN
9781609453626

A Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st century (Prism Magazine), Wood’s dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror.
Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Starved, sedated, the girls can’t be sure of anything–except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them.

Drawing strength from the animal instincts they’re forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for.

The Natural Way of Things is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind’s own vast contradictions–the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.

Winner 2016 Stella Prize 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award in Fiction

An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner

Finalist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Voss Literary Prize 2016 Victorian Premier’s Award 2016 The Miles Franklin Award

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Europa Editions
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
208
ISBN
9781609453626