A mystery benefactor in San Francisco has given away bulk copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid’s Tale to bolster resistance to the new US regime
George Orwell, Margaret Atwood and Erik Larson have been recruited in the resistance against US president Donald Trump by a mystery benefactor in San Francisco, who has paid for copies of the three authors’ most famous dystopian works to be given away with the exhortation: “Read up! Fight back!”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 50 copies of the Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four were bought on Friday night from Booksmith, located in the famous hippy district Haight-Ashbury. The books were snapped up quickly after they were placed on a table with a sign that read: “Read up! Fight back! A mystery benefactor has bought these copies of ‘1984’ for you if you need one.”
We're out of free copies of 1984, but we have The Handmaid's Tale and In the Garden of Beasts up for grabs. #resist #thanksmysterybenefactor http://pic.twitter.com/a9AVkeZSzx
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