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Title: The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood ; with an introduction by Valerie Martin.

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

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 Warrenton Adult Fiction  FIC ATW    AVAILABLE  ---
 Bealeton Adult Fiction  FIC ATW    AVAILABLE  ---
Description: xxxiii, 350 pages ; 22 cm.
Series: Everyman's library
Bibliog.: Includes bibliographical references (page xix).
Summary: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander to make her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Awards: Governor General's Award, 1985.
Subject: Theocracy -- Fiction.
Misogyny -- Fiction.
Dystopias -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Genre: Dystopian fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Contributors: Martin, Valerie, 1948- author of introduction. Author of introduction, etc..
ISBN/ISSN: 0307264602
9780307264602

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