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OverviewA Handmaid's Tale for a new generation! Sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery has only four years left to live when she is kidnapped by the Gatherers and forced into a polygamous marriage. Now she has one purpose: to escape, find her twin brother, and go home -- before her time runs out forever. What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb -- males only live to age twenty-five and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape -- to find her twin brother and go home. But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant she trusts, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limited time she has left. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lauren DeStefanoPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: HarperVoyager Weight: 0.266kg ISBN: 9780007386987ISBN 10: 0007386982 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 16 February 2012 Audience: Young adult , Teenage / Young adult Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsA 'harrowing debut ... DeStefano has an observant and occasionally pitiless eye, chronicling the cruelties, mercies, and inconsistencies of her young characters... It will be intriguing to see how DeStefano develops [the larger world] as this promising trilogy progresses.' -- Publisher's Weekly starred review 'Lauren DeStefano crafts an all too believable future. I loved the world, the romance, the writing -- exactly the kind of book I've been craving to read.' --Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH 'Wither is an exceptional novel that begins with a bang and doesn't let you go--it's gut-wrenching, shocking, incredible, and completely and utterly absorbing all at once!. DeStefano is a fearless writer, and though it is firmly its own book, Wither will remind readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.' --TheCompulsiveReader.com Amelia writes: In a scientific quest to make humans healthy to the point of invincibility, something went disastrously wrong. One generation took the miracle cure - and it worked - but their offspring are doomed to a brief life. Men live to the age of 25, women only to 20 and then the Virus strikes - no one is spared. To ensure the continuation of the human race, girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages where priority number one is having children. Rhine is one such bride, kidnapped and purchased by Housemaster Vaughn for his son Linden. Rhine is brought into a world of wealth and elegant luxury, but the shatterproof glass windows, and keycard entry to her room are reminders that she is a prisoner. The only thing on her mind is escape, but aside from the stringent security measures, Rhine must also deal with her father in law, dangerously obsessed with finding a cure for the Virus before his son reaches 25. Meanwhile, Linden is falling in love with Rhine, Rhine's two sister wives are struggling to cope with their new life, and Rhine dreams endlessly of reuniting with her brother. You'll be hooked from page one of Wither, which is the first in a new, fabulous dystopian trilogy. I'm already hanging out for book two! With the same mood as The Handmaid's Tale, and a society as out of control as that in Matched or The Hunger Games, this will enthrall readers in search of something a bit dark and edgy. A 'harrowing debut ... DeStefano has an observant and occasionally pitiless eye, chronicling the cruelties, mercies, and inconsistencies of her young characters... It will be intriguing to see how DeStefano develops [the larger world] as this promising trilogy progresses.' -- Publisher's Weekly starred review 'Lauren DeStefano crafts an all too believable future. I loved the world, the romance, the writing -- exactly the kind of book I've been craving to read.' --Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH 'Wither is an exceptional novel that begins with a bang and doesn't let you go--it's gut-wrenching, shocking, incredible, and completely and utterly absorbing all at once!. DeStefano is a fearless writer, and though it is firmly its own book, Wither will remind readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.' --TheCompulsiveReader.com Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.laurendestefano.comLauren Destefano earned her BA in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing from Albertus Magnus College in Connecticut in 2007. Wither is her first novel. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.laurendestefano.comCountries AvailableAll regions |
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